risk of fatal hazards is fraught with problems. The theoretical basis for such estimates are flawed in a number of …

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 …

This paper provides an analysis and summary of the effects of the Workers' Compensation (WC) system on wages and work …

This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the … United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We … then combine our estimates of persistent labor income risk with measures of exposure to international trade to analyze the …

model of time-varying labor income risk and study the implications of stochastic covariance between labor income and … dividends for the dynamics of the risk premiums on financial wealth and human capital …

. We further find that employees of target firms experience a reduction in work hours and stagnation in wages despite an …

The magnitude of and heterogeneity in systematic earnings risk has important implications for various theories in macro …, labor, and financial economics. Using administrative data, we document how the aggregate risk exposure of individual … earnings to GDP and stock returns varies across gender, age, the worker's earnings level, and industry. Aggregate risk exposure …

In simple one-good international macro models, the presence of non-diversifiable labor income risk means that country … against non-diversifiable labor income risk. We then use our our theory to link openness to trade to the level of …

individual requires to accept increased occupational fatality risk. We derive a relationship between the value of a statistical … status or quality of life and anticipated longevity threats lead to significant differences in the estimated wage/risk … anticipated longevity threats, help to explain the diversity in past studies examining how the estimated wage-risk tradeoff …