Are young workers compensated for a high strain job?

Elsy Verhofstadt, H. de Witte and Eddy Omey

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: In this paper we test whether starters in a stressful job get a compensation for the burden they face. The compensating wage differentials model predicts a wage compensation for accepting a job with high workload. The Karasek model (1979) highlights the importance of a balance between demands and control in the job. The combination of both models leads to the hypothesis that the wage compensation for high workload will be lower in a job with high autonomy. The selectivity corrected estimations do not confirm this hypothesis. So, entrants on the labour market who start in a stressful job are in a problematic position as they are not compensated for this burden.

Keywords: job-demand-control model of Karasek; wage compensation; stress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2007-01
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