Occupation Segregation: A Defense of Human Capital Predictions

Solomon Polachek

Journal of Human Resources, 1985, vol. 20, issue 3, 437-440

Abstract: This article examines worker sorting across occupations in response to the risk of death on the job. We use family structure as a proxy for willingness to trade safety for wages to test the proposition that workers with strong aversion to this risk sort ...

Date: 1985
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