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Worker Investments In Safety, Workplace Accidents, And Compensating Wage Differentials

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  • José R. Guardado
  • Nicolas R. Ziebarth

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The theory of compensating wage differentials (CWDs) assumes that firms supply and workers demand workplace safety, predicting a positive relationship between accident risk and wages. This article allows for safety provision by workers, which predicts a countervailing negative relationship between individual risk and wages: Firms pay higher wages for higher safety‐related productivity. Using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth panel data and data on fatal and nonfatal accidents, our precise CWDs imply a value of a statistical injury of $45.4 thousand and a value of a statistical life of $6.3 million. In line with our model, individual risk and wages are negatively correlated.

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  • José R. Guardado & Nicolas R. Ziebarth, 2019. "Worker Investments In Safety, Workplace Accidents, And Compensating Wage Differentials," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 60(1), pages 133-155, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:iecrev:v:60:y:2019:i:1:p:133-155
    DOI: 10.1111/iere.12347
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