Occupation Segregation: A Defense of Human Capital Predictions
This article examines worker sorting across occupations in response to the risk of death on the job. We use family structure as a proxy for willingness to trade safety for wages to test the proposition that workers with strong aversion to this risk sort ...
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1985
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Authors: | Polachek, Solomon William |
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Journal of Human Resources. - University of Wisconsin Press. - Vol. 20.1985, 3
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University of Wisconsin Press |
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