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Main Title On the measurement of job risk in hedonic wage model /
Author Black, Dan A.
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Kniesner, Thomas J.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Economics,
Year Published 2003
OCLC Number 57251540
Subjects Health risk assessment
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EJBR EPAAUX HC79.E5N386 2003-06 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 03/27/2020
Collation 22 pages ; 28 cm.
Notes "August 2003." We examine the incidence, form, and research consequences of measurement error in measures of fatal injury risk in U.S. workplaces using both BLS and NIOSH data. These data are commonly used in hedonic wage studies. Despite the fact that each of our measures of job risk purport to measure the same thing, the risk of a fatality while on the job, the various measures of job risk are not highly correlated, with the maximum correlation being 0.53. Indeed, many of the estimated value of statistical life estimates are negative. We find that the National Institute of Safety and Healths industry risk measure produces implicit value of life estimates most in line with both economic theory and the mode result for the existing literature than other risk measures examined. Because we find non-classical measurement error that differs across risk measures and is not independent of other regressors, innovative statistical procedures need be applied to obtain statistically improved estimates of wage-fatality risk.
Place Published {Washington, D.C.} :
Access Notes Also available on the Internet. Viewed: 12/16/2004.
Title Ser Add Ent Working paper series (National Center for Environmental Economics) ;
PUB Date Free Form 2003.
Series Title Untraced Working paper series ; 03-06
BIB Level m
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OCLC Time Stamp 20041217090758
Language eng
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Type CAT
OCLC Rec Leader 01995nam 2200265Ia 45020