Do the Near-Elderly Value Mortality Risks Differently?
Wage hedonic models are estimated with the Health and Retirement Study to measure the risk-wage tradeoffs (value of statistical lives) for older workers. The analysis explicitly allows for multiple employment states, including retirement, using a multinomial selection model. The results suggest that the oldest and most risk-averse workers require significantly higher, not lower, compensation to accept increases in job-related fatality risks. © 2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Classification-JEL: I12
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2004
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Authors: | Smith, V. Kerry ; Evans, Mary F. ; Kim, Hyun ; Taylor, Donald H. |
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The Review of Economics and Statistics. - MIT Press. - Vol. 86.2004, 1, p. 423-429
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MIT Press |
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