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Title: Worker Responses to Occupational Risk of Cancer
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Robinson, James C. |
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Worker Responses to Occupational Risk of Cancer Review of Economics and Statistics 72,3 (August 1990): 536-541. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2109365 Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): Health Factors; Job Hazards; Working Conditions Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Toxicological data from the Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances and worker exposure data from the National Occupational Health Survey are used to construct an occupational cancer risk index. This objective cancer risk measure is strongly correlated with subjective worker-assessed measures of exposure to health hazards in the 1978-80 NLS of Young Men and Young Women. A total of 1,837 NLS respondents were employed in the occupations for which cancer risk information is available. The NLS quit measure is constructed as a variable taking the value of one if the worker quit a job between 1978 and 1980 (men) or between 1980 and 1982 (women). Workers exposed to occupational health hazards, as measured by the objective risk index and the subjective risk perceptions, are more apt to quit their jobs than are otherwise comparable workers not exposed to hazards. They also pursue voice strategies, as measured by their willingness to vote in favor of union representation. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Robinson, James C. "Worker Responses to Occupational Risk of Cancer." Review of Economics and Statistics 72,3 (August 1990): 536-541.
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