Worker sorting and the risk of death on the job

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: DeLeire, T; Levy, H
• 署名单位: Michigan State University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/423159
• 发表日期: 2004
• 页码: 925-953
• 关键词: occupational sex segregation; gender-differences; logit model; CHOICE; HEALTH; women; retirement; tests

摘要

This article examines worker sorting across occupations in response to the risk of death on the job. We use family structure as a proxy for willingness to trade safety for wages to test the proposition that workers with strong aversion to this risk sort into safer jobs. We estimate conditional logit models of occupation choice as a function of injury risk and other job attributes. Our results confirm the sorting hypothesis: within gender, single moms and dads are the most averse to risk. Overall, differences in the risk of death across occupations explain about one-quarter of occupational gender segregation.