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Assuming the Can Opener : Hedonic Wage Estimates and the Value of Life
Dickens, William T. - 2021
risk of fatal hazards is fraught with problems. The theoretical basis for such estimates are flawed in a number of …
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Changing Inequality in Markets for Workplace Amenities
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
burden of injuries into its components, risk of injury and injury duration. In those industries where earnings rose … interindustry wage differentials narrowed, a decline that was associated with an increase in the relative risk of injury in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232150
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Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life
DeLeire, Thomas - 2008
Wage-hedonics is used to recover the value of a statistical life by exploiting the fact that workers choosing riskier occupations will be compensated with a higher wage. However, Roy (1951) suggests that observed wage distributions will be distorted if individuals select into jobs according to...
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Unemployment Risk and Compensating Differential in Late-Nineteenth Century New Jersey Manufacturing
Averett, Susan L.; Bodenhorn, Howard; Staisiunas, Justas - 2021
In this paper we test for the existence of compensating differentials for unemployment risk in an era before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234925
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When to Start a Fight and When to Fight Back : Liability Disputes in the Workers' Compensation System
Card, David - 2010
Despite the adoption of no-fault Workers' Compensation legislation in most states, there is substantial litigation over the issue of employer liability for injury claims. We develop a sequential asymmetric information model of liability disputes and estimate the model using data on injury claims...
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How Do Alternative Work Arrangements Affect Income Risk after Workplace Injury?
Broten, Nicholas - 2019
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 risk. We study employment and earnings risk in the context of workplace injuries … employment and earnings risk posed by workplace injuries, comparing labor market outcomes after injury between temporary and …
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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 Injuries (CFOI) data. These results are borne out by the...
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The Mortality Cost of Political Connections
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2015
We study the relationship between the political connections of Chinese firms and workplace fatalities. In our preferred specification we find that the worker death rate for connected companies is two to three times that of unconnected firms (depending on the sample employed), a pattern that...
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The Declining Effects of Osha Inspections on Manufacturing Injuries : 1979 to 1998
Gray, Wayne B.; Mendeloff, John - 2021
This study compares the impact of OSHA inspections on manufacturing industries using data from three time periods: 1979-85, 1987-91, and 1992-98. We find substantial declines in the impact of OSHA inspections since 1979-85. In the earliest period we estimate that having an OSHA inspection that...
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Workers' Compensation, Wages, and the Risk of Injury
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2021
This paper provides an analysis and summary of the effects of the Workers' Compensation (WC) system on wages and work injury experience. It stresses how lessons learned from other forms of social insurance can be applied to research on WC. I begin with a brief overview of the characteristics of...
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