 Hazardous Agrochemicals, Smoking, and Farmers’ Differences in Wage-Risk TradeoffsStefanos Nastis () and Anastasios Michailidis No 109389, 120th Seminar, September 2-4, 2010, Chania, Crete from European Association of Agricultural Economists Abstract: This paper utilizes the theory of compensating differentials for job risks from the labor economics literature to evaluate farmers’ differences in wage-risk tradeoffs. In the context of job risks, the theory predicts that farmers who place a lower value on health status are willing to work for lower compensation on a risky job. The aim of the paper is to evaluate how the observed wage-risk tradeoff is affected by individual heterogeneity in risk preferences, by acknowledging variations in farmers’ revealed attitudes toward risk, both in job-related and non-job activities. The job risk measure employed is self-reported job risk of low back pain, the most recurring health risk faced by farmers. The job-related risky activity is the application of hazardous agrochemicals. The non-job activity is smoking. The primary finding of the study is that individual heterogeneity in risk attitudes is an important determinant of the risk premium workers receive, i.e., individual differences in other health-related activities are influential determinants of the observed wage-risk tradeoff. Keywords: Agribusiness; Farm Management; Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:eaa120:109389 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 120th Seminar, September 2-4, 2010, Chania, Crete from European Association of Agricultural Economists Contact information at EDIRC. |
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