Immigrants in Risky Occupations

Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny

No 6693, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by briefly explaining the theory of compensating wage differentials. It then provides a more detailed discussion of the empirical evidence on the subject, which reaches several conclusions. First, immigrants are overrepresented in occupations and industries with higher injury and fatality rates. Second, immigrants have higher work-related injury and fatality rates in some advanced economies, but not all. Finally, most, but not all, immigrants appear to earn risk premiums similar to natives for working in risky jobs. The chapter closes with a discussion of areas where additional research is needed.

Keywords: risky jobs; compensating differentials; immigrants (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2012-06
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Published - published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), The International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, 214-226

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