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Makowsky, Michael D. Bacon, Kelsey Roberts |
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The Wages of Irregular Tasks: Workers’ Compensation Benefits and Occupational Misclassification The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (19 February 2024). Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s10713-023-00093-2 Cohort(s): NLS General Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Keyword(s): Fatal Accident Risk at Work; Insurance; Insurance Costs; Occupational Misclassification; Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA); Wage Differentials; Work Accidents; Work Tasks, Irregular Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. As workers’ compensation insurance costs increase, firms have incentive to misclassify employees under ostensibly safer job classifications to lower premiums. Using Occupational Safety and Health Agency accident investigation records, we measure employee risk of fatality while performing tasks reported to investigators as outside of employee duties (“irregular tasks”). We observe standard compensating wage differentials paid for fatal accident risk during regular tasks uncorrelated with insurance costs. Both the share of fatal accidents occurring during irregular tasks and the wage differentials paid for irregular task risk, however, increase when mandated benefits increase workers’ compensation insurance costs. |
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Makowsky, Michael D. and Kelsey Roberts Bacon. "The Wages of Irregular Tasks: Workers’ Compensation Benefits and Occupational Misclassification." The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review (19 February 2024).
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