 Is there any monetary compensation for exposure to difficult working conditions?Les expositions à des conditions de travail pénibles sont-elles compensées monétairement ?Working Papers from HAL Abstract: Recruitment difficulties in certain professions raise the question of the role of working conditions. According to the economic theory of compensation, hardship must be taken into account in the wage equation to guarantee attractiveness and job retention. Using French surveys on working conditions, the relationship between exposure to arduous working conditions and wages is examined over a 30-year period (1991-2019). The results show that exposure to physical constraints and a lack of autonomy are associated with lower wages (malus salarial). Work intensity or hourly constraints show no link with wages. Positive correlations (salary bonuses) are rare and correspond to easily identifiable work situations: alternating shifts, rhythms imposed by technical constraints. Lastly, salary penalties are frequent, and generally more significant for men, managers and intermediate professions, or among high earners. Keywords: Wage compensation; working conditions; psychosocial risks; hedonic wage theory; segmentation theory; Compensation salariale; conditions de travail; risques psychosociaux; théorie hédonique du salaire; théorie de la segmentation (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:hal:wpaper:hal-04946120 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from HAL |
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