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The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life
Viscusi, W. Kip - 2014
Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias yield … bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are higher for labor market studies using the more recent Census of Fatal Occupational … of the variable used to capture publication bias effects. Meta-regression estimates for a large sample of VSL estimates …
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The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life
Viscusi, W. Kip - 2014
Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias yield … bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are higher for labor market studies using the more recent Census of Fatal Occupational … of the variable used to capture publication bias effects. Meta-regression estimates for a large sample of VSL estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458550
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The Role of Publication Selection Bias in Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life
Viscusi, W. Kip - 2014
Meta-regression estimates of the value of a statistical life (VSL) controlling for publication selection bias often … yield bias-corrected estimates of VSL that are substantially below the mean VSL estimates. Labor market studies using the … bias-corrected estimates than do studies based on earlier fatality rate measures. These results are borne out by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140930
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Did We Overestimate the Value of Health?
Lalive, Rafael - 2000
usually identifies compensating wage differentials for risk by regressing individual wages on aggregate measures of risk …
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Follow the money : trucker pay incentives, working time, and safety
Ju, Shengyang; Belzer, Michael H. - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 35 (2024) 1, pp. 7-26
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Returning to work from injury : longitudinal evidence on employment and earnings
Crichton, Sarah (contributor); Stillman, Steven (contributor) - 2005
New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand's Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information on...
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Hedonic wage equilibrium : theory, evidence and policy
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D. - 2010
heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application where hedonic models have been most successful at clarifying … dimensions of heterogeneity in VSL, including by age and consumption plans, the latent trait that affects wages and job safety …
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Randomized safety inspections and risk exposure on the job : quasi-experimental estimates of the value of a statistical life
Lee, Jonathan M.; Taylor, Laura O. - 2014
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Compensating differentials for occupational health and safety risks : implications of recent evidence
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the...
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How Do Alternative Work Arrangements Affect Income Risk after Workplace Injury?
Broten, Nicholas - 2019
Alternative work arrangements, including temporary and contract work, have become more widespread. There is interest in understanding the effects of these types of arrangements on employment and earnings risk for workers and the potential for existing social insurance programs to address this...
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