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Occupational Fatalities : Self Employed Workers and Wage and Salary Workers

Pegula, Stephen M - 2009

In this study reasons for why self employed workers face a greater risk of fatal occupational injuries when compared to wage and salary workers are explored. Statistics from the year 2001 revealed that almost 20% of workplace fatalities were incurred by self employed workers who accounted for...

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Estimating the value of gender- and race-specific job injury risk

Mridha, Hosne A.; Khan, Farida Chowdhury - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 34 (2023) 1, pp. 140-156

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Optimal wage redistribution in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market

Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2014

In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...

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Biased expectations and labor market outcomes : evidence from German survey data and implications for the East-West wage gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and …We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average … pessimistic than West Germans. We find a significantly negative relationship between the pessimistic bias in job separation …

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