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The economic value of risks to life
Baranzini, Andrea; Ferro-Luzzi, Giovanni - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 137 (2001) 2, pp. 149-170
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Gender, firm size, industry, and estimates of the value-of-life
Leigh, John Paul - In: Journal of health economics 6 (1987) 3, pp. 255-273
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The value of a statistical life in Chile
Parada-Contzen, Marcela; Riquelme-Won, Andrés; … - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 45 (2013) 3, pp. 1073-1087
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Compensating differentials for occupational health and safety risks : implications of recent evidence
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the...
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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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How Do Alternative Work Arrangements Affect Income Risk after Workplace Injury?
Broten, Nicholas - 2019
Alternative work arrangements, including temporary and contract work, have become more widespread. There is interest in 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...
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Assuming the Can Opener : Hedonic Wage Estimates and the Value of Life
Dickens, William T. - 2021
argued that this wide range of results is not fully apparent in the literature because of the bias in publication towards …
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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 …
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Do temporary workers experience additional employment and earnings risk after workplace injuries?
Broten, Nicholas; Dworsky, Michael; Powell, David - In: Journal of public economics 209 (2022), pp. 1-12
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A Model of Worker Investment in Safety and its Effects on Accidents and Wages
Guardado, José - 2013
between individual accident risk and wages, but only in high risk occupations. The latter relationship may downward bias or … is exogenous. It predicts that riskier jobs are associated with higher wages. In contrast, in our model, workers make … risk and wages. We test the model's predictions using obesity as a proxy for worker disinvestments in human capital and …
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