Search Results - subject:"Compensating wage differentials"

The Value of a Statistical Injury: New Evidence from the Swiss Labor Market

Kuhn, Andreas; Ruf, Oliver - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry x skill-level of the job and capitalizing on the partial panel structure of our data which allows us to empirically isolate the wage component specific...

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How Large Is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers?

Dupuy, Arnaud; Smits, Wendy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

contrast to the bulk of the literature on compensating wage differentials that compares wage levels of jobs with different …. In contrast to the bulk of the literature on compensating wage differentials that compares wage levels of jobs with … Classification: J3 Keywords: R&D workers, compensating wage differentials, hedonic prices Corresponding author: Arnaud …

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Dirty Money: Is there a Wage Premium for Working in a Pollution Intensive Industry

Cole, Matthew A; Elliott, Robert J R; Lindley, Joanne K - Department of Economics, University of Birmingham - 2009

Within a compensating wage differential framework we investigate whether there is a wage premium for working in a pollution intensive industry. Our results for the economy as a whole suggest a small wage premium of approximately one quarter of one percent associated with the risk of working in a...

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The Timing of Work and Work-Family Conflicts in Spain: Who Has a Split Work Schedule and Why?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Spain, as other south-Mediterranean countries, is characterized for the predominance of split work schedules. Split work schedules typically consist of 5 hours of work in the morning (typically from 9 am to 2 pm), followed by a 2 hour break and another 3 hours of work in the afternoon/evening...

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The Value of a Statistical Injury: New Evidence from the Swiss Labor Market

Kuhn, Andreas; Ruf, Oliver - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2009

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The value of a statistical injury : new evidence from the Swiss labor market

Kuhn, Andreas; Ruf, Oliver - 2009

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Is there a motherhood wage penalty for highly skilled women?

Gafni, Dalit; Siniver, Erez - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 15 (2015) 3, pp. 1353-1380

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Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2008

The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat since then, although to levels much larger than before the first team expansions in 1967. Using publicly available information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for...

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Crime does pay (at least when it's violent)!: on the compensating wage differentials of high regional crime levels

Braakmann, Nils - 2008

This paper investigates whether high regional crime levels lead to a compensating wage differential paid by firms in the respective region. Using data from German social security records and official police statistics for 2003 to 2006, we consider both violent and non-violent crimes and use...

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The Impact of Workplace Conditions on Firm Performance

Buhai, Sebastian; Cottini, Elena; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels - 2008

This paper estimates the impact of work environment health and safety practice on firm performance, and examines which firm-characteristic factors are associated with good work conditions. We use Danish longitudinal register matched employer-employee data, merged with firm business accounts and...

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