QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
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1999年
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114卷
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04期
基金:
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词:
D O I:
10.1162/003355399556214
中图分类号:
F [经济];
学科分类号:
02 ;
摘要:
Among U.S. industries where earnings rose relatively from 1979-1995, injury rates declined relatively. Obversely, during the 1960s narrowing interindustry wage differentials were associated with an increase in the relative risk of injury in high-wage industries. Evidence from the NLSY suggests similar results among full-time workers between 1988 and 1996. Between 1973 and 1991 the disamenity of evening/night work was increasingly borne by low-wage male workers. Changing earnings inequality has understated changing inequality in the returns to work. Assuming skill-neutral changes in the cost of reducing these disamenities, estimates of the implied income elasticities of demand for amenities are well above unity.
机构:
Univ Amsterdam, Fac Social & Behav Sci, Dept Human Geog Planning & Int Dev GPIO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sao Sch Business Adm FGV EAESP, Dept Planning & Econ Anal Appl Adm PAE, Sao Paulo, BrazilUniv Amsterdam, Fac Social & Behav Sci, Dept Human Geog Planning & Int Dev GPIO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
机构:
George Washington Univ, Ctr Social Policy Studies, Washington, DC 20052 USAGeorge Washington Univ, Ctr Social Policy Studies, Washington, DC 20052 USA