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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States
Lin, Carl - 2013
mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086220
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One Country, Two Systems : Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China
Giles, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Wang, Gewei; Wang, Stephen Yafeng - 2021
This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the … China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between … urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's urban residents retire earlier than workers in many OECD countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212253
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Hedonic Wage Equilibrium : Theory, Evidence and Policy
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2010
We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy questions when there is labor market heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application...
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Partial Identification of Willingness-to-Pay Using Shape Restrictions with an Application to the Value of a Statistical Life
Sojourner, Aaron - 2010
Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...
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Native-Migrant Differences in Trading Off Wages and Workplace Safety
D’Ambrosio, Anna - 2017
Applying propensity score reweighting to Italian administrative data covering the period 1994-2012, we study the conditional distributions of injuries by wage of native and foreign workers and distinguish between the component that is explained by observable characteristics and the component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963848
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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health
Gihleb, Rania - 2020
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on establishment-level data for the US, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces...
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Works Councils and Workplace Health Promotion in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019
From a theoretical viewpoint, there can be market failures resulting in an underprovision of occupational health and safety. Works councils may help mitigate these failures. Using establishment data from Germany, our empirical analysis confirms that the incidence of a works council is...
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Temporary Jobs and the Severity of Workplace Accidents
Picchio, Matteo - 2016
From the point of view of workplace safety, it is important to know whether having a temporary job has an effect on the severity of workplace accidents. We present an empirical analysis on the severity of workplace accidents by type of contract. We used micro data collected by the Italian...
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A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and its Effects on Accidents and Wages
Guardado, José - 2013
In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk is exogenous. It predicts that riskier jobs are associated with higher wages. In contrast, in our model, workers make individual safety investments that reduce the risk of...
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Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces : Where are They and Who Controls Them?
Bryson, Alex - 2016
This is the first paper to identify the correlates of workplace managers' perceptions of the health and safety risks faced by workers and the degree to which workers have control over those risks. The risks workers face and the control they have over those risks are weakly negatively correlated....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997432