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Skill and the Value of Life

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posted on 2021-11-15, 21:29 authored by Jason F. Shogren, T. Stamland
The value of statistical life (VSL) can be inferred through real-world wage–fatality risk trade-offs made across different occupations. This paper shows that the VSL based on the wage-risk trade-off tends to be biased upward if it does not account for the diversity of workers’ unobservable skill to cope privately with job risk. This upward bias arises because the highest required wage differential among the workers is divided by their average risk across the population.

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eng

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English

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University of Wyoming. Libraries

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Journal of Political Economy

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Faculty Publications - Economics

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  • Library Sciences - LIBS

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