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Who shirks at work? A time use exploration Cover

Who shirks at work? A time use exploration

Open Access
|Dec 2025

Figures & Tables

Main estimation results

VARIABLES(1) Shirking time(2) Share of shirking(3) Being a shirker(4) Shirking time | shirkers(5) Share of shirking | shirkers
Being male1.871*** (0.508)0.002** (0.001)0.016** (0.007)1.602*** (0.605)0.001 (0.001)
Age0.060*** (0.020)0.000*** (0.000)0.000 (0.000)0.077*** (0.024)0.000*** (0.000)
Educ.: Secondary-1.307 (1.956)-0.002 (0.003)0.006 (0.020)-1.602 (2.092)-0.002 (0.003)
Educ.: University-4.240** (2.010)-0.007** (0.003)-0.037* (0.021)-3.217 (2.167)-0.005 (0.004)
Being white-4.329*** (0.593)-0.008*** (0.001)-0.060*** (0.007)-2.350*** (0.677)-0.004*** (0.001)
Being Hispanic-3.948*** (0.633)-0.006*** (0.001)-0.057*** (0.008)-1.810** (0.717)-0.002 (0.001)
Living in couple-1.197** (0.489)-0.002*** (0.001)-0.009 (0.006)-1.187** (0.568)-0.002** (0.001)
Family size0.398* (0.225)0.001 (0.000)0.003 (0.003)0.391 (0.263)0.001 (0.000)
Having children-2.181*** (0.625)-0.003*** (0.001)-0.013 (0.008)-2.360*** (0.732)-0.003** (0.001)
Full time worker13.338*** (0.921)0.021*** (0.002)0.204*** (0.011)6.569*** (1.195)0.006*** (0.002)
Public sector worker1.928*** (0.650)0.005*** (0.001)0.026*** (0.008)1.248 (0.772)0.004*** (0.001)
Supervised worker10.017*** (1.236)0.016*** (0.002)0.098*** (0.015)8.472*** (1.467)0.013*** (0.003)
Weekly work hours-0.134*** (0.029)-0.001*** (0.000)-0.003*** (0.000)-0.017 (0.038)-0.001*** (0.000)
Weekday4.410*** (0.604)0.006*** (0.001)0.078*** (0.007)1.075 (0.825)-0.000 (0.002)
Weekly earnings-0.003*** (0.000)-0.000*** (0.000)-0.000*** (0.000)-0.002*** (0.001)-0.000*** (0.000)
Constant22.753*** (3.122)0.063*** (0.005)0.551*** (0.039)39.992*** (3.576)0.111*** (0.006)
Occupation fixed effectsYesYesYesYesYes
State fixed effectsYesYesYesYesYes
Year fixed effectsYesYesYesYesYes
Observations45,05445,05445,05430,05930,059
R-squared0.0600.0580.0660.0280.036

Summary statistics

VARIABLESMeanS. Dev
Shirking time31.47735.985
Share of shirking0.0580.064
Being a shirker0.6670.667
Being male0.5420.498
Age39.5112.71
Educ.: Primary0.0180.132
Educ.: Secondary0.6390.480
Educ.: University0.3430.475
Being white0.8200.384
Being Hispanic0.1760.381
Living in couple0.5500.498
Family size3.1061.518
Having children0.5290.499
Full time worker0.8540.353
Public sector worker0.1670.373
Supervised worker0.5010.500
Weekly work hours41.6111.39
Weekly earnings869.0632.0
N. Individuals45,054
Language: English
Page range: 6 - 11
Published on: Dec 31, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Juan Carlos Campaña, Jorge Velilla, published by Asociacion Española de Economia del Trabajo
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