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Opportunistic Shirking Behavior During Unpaid Overtime

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
We identify the presence of shirking by Major League Baseball umpires during indefinite unpaid overtime, as defined by extra innings. In the presence of new information about expected game length, umpires exert biases in ball and strike calls consistent with opportunistically reducing the likelihood of working additional time. General implications with
Michael J. Lopez, Brian M. Mills
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Local Government Shirks Charging

Economic Affairs, 1985
The scope for charging for local government services is much wider than commonly supposed. Michael Spungin of Nottingham County Council argues that councils are reluctant to introduce charging more because of organised opposition from interest groups for technical reasons of inefficiency or inapplicability.
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Absenteeism, Presenteeism, and Shirking [PDF]

Economic Issues, 2004
We develop the Barmby et al. (1993) model of absenteeism (which appeared in the Scandanavian Journal of Economics) to illustrate the potential for individuals to engage in ?presenteeism? viz. attending work even when they are entitled to paid absence.
S Brown, J G Sessions
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Working, Shirking, and Sabotage

Public Administration Review, 2000
Books reviewed:John Brehm and Scott Gates, Working, Shirking, and Sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic Public.
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Do loafers shirk?

2000
25 p.
Vermeulen, P.A.M., Vissers, G.A.N., Benders, J.G.J.M.   +2 more
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Fighting for Tyranny: State Repression and Combat Motivation

Social Science Research Network
We utilize over 100 million declassified Red Army personnel records from World War II to study how state repression shapes soldiers’ motivation to exert effort in fighting.
Arturas Rozenas, Roya Talibova, Y. Zhukov   +2 more
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A Critical Review of the Slaughter of Kendhit Goats to Reject Bala in the Perspective of Islamic Aqidah

Demak Universal Journal of Islam and Sharia
Indonesia has a variety of cultural diversity, one of the cultures in Indonesia that is known to be unique and even preserved by the community is the tradition to make peace with nature known as tolak bala.
Salma Rafa Perwita, H. Hamidah, Kaneishia Farah Az-zahra, Muthi'ah Muthi'ah, Ferina Kansanaswa Devita, Febryan Hidayat   +5 more
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‘We feel the responsibility that you shirk’: movement institutionalization, the politics of responsibility and the case of the Swedish environmental movement

, 2016
Håkan Thörn, S. Svenberg
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Political parties and political shirking

Public Choice, 2010
Using ADA roll call voting scores for the 1947–2006 period, I find that senators shirk in their last term. The degree of shirking is limited by political parties, which constrain the politician in his last term, and varies by post-Senate career choices.
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Do busy directors and CEOs shirk their responsibilities? Evidence from mergers and acquisitions

, 2015
B. Benson, Wallace N. Davidson, T. Davidson, Hongxia Wang   +3 more
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