Numerous studies, in particular for the US, have shown that individuals in occupations with high injury risk are … compensated for that risk by corresponding bonus payments. At the same time, male workers are overrepresented in the most … Germany and the US considering fatal occupational injury risk. The Blinder-Oaxaca method for tobit models is used to decompose …

-Economic Panel (GSOEP) within individually perceived hazards of work accidents as a risk variable, evidence for compensating wage …

-Economic Panel (GSOEP) within individually perceived hazards of work accidents as a risk variable, evidence for compensating wage …

highlight some stylized facts. Besides a substantial gap in wage and injury risk that cannot be attributed to differences in the … characteristics, foreign workers face higher levels of risk by the same level of wages. The gap is significantly above the level … with low wage potential are forced to accept higher levels of risk due to the lower bounds on minimum wage. The second …

-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated … with the wage dispersion of an individual's occupation. -- dispersion estimation ; earnings risk ; censoring ; quantile …