LABOR ECONOMICS
LABOR ECONOMICS
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ISBN: 9781260004724
Author: BORJAS
Publisher: RENT MCG
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Chapter 5, Problem 1RQ
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Determine how the worker decides whether to accept a safe job or a risky job.

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Assume that there are only two types of jobs in the labor market, the safe jobs and the risky jobs. The safe jobs have the probability that 0 employee gets injured. On the other hand, the risky jobs have the probability that 1 gets injured. Here, the indifference curves reveal the trade-offs that a worker prefers between wages and degree of risk. Therefore, to get the same utility to the worker, the risky jobs must pay higher wages than safe jobs. Then only a worker will choose a risky job. That is, if the market-compensating wage differential exceeds the reservation price of the worker, the worker may turn to a more risky job.

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