Wage and job-skill distributions in the National Compensation Survey

Cunningham, Cindy; Mohr, Robert D.

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“…These risks are not distributed equally. Workers earning low wages or the minimum wage are injured at work at a higher rate (Michaels 2015;Leigh, Leigh, and Du 2019), partly because lower wage jobs are more likely to involve physical labor (Bernstein and Gittleman 2003). With that disparity in mind, this paper considers an underexamined question: what is the effect of minimum wage on workplace safety?…”

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A higher minimum wage promotes workplace safety: Evidence from the restaurant industry

LaFiandra,

Schwab

2023

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applied Research in Management, Economics and Accounting

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The American workplace is distressingly dangerous, with 5,333 workplace deaths and 2.8 million nonfatal injuries and illnesses in 2019. This paper uses a difference-in-differences methodology to exploit staggered changes in the minimum wage from 1992-2016 to demonstrate that an increase in the minimum wage reduces workplace injuries and deaths in the United States restaurant sector, with an elasticity between -0.73 and -1.45. We limit attention to the restaurant sector because minimum wage workers are strongly overrepresented in that sector. Safety violations in routine inspections decline when the minimum wage is increased. These violations are found in domains where the employer is most responsible (e.g., expired fire extinguisher), which suggests that employer behavior is an important mechanism. Additionally, it is possible that the exiting restaurants tend to be more dangerous. Previous research shows that the restaurants which are driven out of business by minimum wage hikes were those that were already close to the margin of exit, and firms that are barely staying afloat before the minimum wage hike may be less likely make long-term investments in safety. Finally, we analyze the manufacturing sector as an additional placebo test. The minimum wage rarely binds for workers in the manufacturing sector, so we should expect that there is only a weak relationship between the minimum wage and accident inspections. This paper ties into a long-standing debate about the wisdom of increasing the minimum wage. Most scholars indicate that raising the minimum wage causes a slight decrease in employment, but there are also papers that find no effect or even a positive effect. The present paper uncovers a new benefit to raising the minimum wage and strengthens the argument that it should be increased even if there is a small detriment to employment.

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A higher minimum wage promotes workplace safety: Evidence from the restaurant industry

LaFiandra,

Schwab

2023

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Applied Research in Management, Economics and Accounting

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“…Most authors (for example, Firpo et al [4] or Cunningham and Mohr [5]) agree that "human capital" has criteria for its measurement and, upon the results of its assessment, wages should be formed. However, this does not always happen, which is also noted in these publications.…”

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Factors of development of the Russian additional professional education market

Lobazova¹

2020

P Sci Edu

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The results of the activities of higher education institutions in the field of additional professional education do not always reach high rates, which affects the process of implementing the state policy of labor market modernization. The hypothesis of this study was based on the assumption of a complex of conditions, in which the offers in the additional professional education market are formed, and which can be considered as a group of related but not homogeneous factors. To form the empirical base of the study, the authors selectively collected open data posted on the official websites of educational organizations on the Internet, which were then statistically and meaningfully processed using the systemic method. As a result, it was found that offers in the market of additional professional education services are formed under the influence of a number of objective factors, which are designated in the study as “standard, progress, market and fashion” factors. The application of this model to the analysis of the actual state of the additional professional education market made it possible to formulate three principles of effective organization, abiding by which some educational organizations obtain benchmark results: fields-of-study differentiation, functions delegation, and price diversification. Thus, the study made it possible to identify the most effective directions of the organizational activities of universities in the field of additional professional education and to formulate a number of provisions of practical significance. The prospect of the study is a factor analysis of further changes in that part of the additional professional education market, which is made up of state higher education institutions.

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“…Since it is difficult to identify concrete skill measures that are comparable across occupations (Cunningham and Mohr 2017), a relatively recent literature attempts to isolate particular characteristics of occupations that correspond to job skills. These papers often employ what Autor (2013) describes as the "task approach" to measuring skills.…”

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Using tools to distinguish general and occupation-specific skills

Cunningham

Mohr

2019

J Labour Market Res

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Data on tool use from O*Net's Tools and Technologies Supplement can, in conjunction with task-based measures, provide a new proxy for measuring and distinguishing general and specific skills at the occupational level. The tools and types of tools used in an occupation generate reasonable proxies for skill that vary across occupations and appear to capture features of occupations that differ from and complement task-based proxies for skill. Wage regressions indicate that job-specific tools, which correspond to particular occupations, are associated with higher pay. Non-specific tools correlate to lower-paying sales, service and administrative occupations. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.1 Gathmann and Schönberg (2010) show that a task-based measure of skills explains a significant proportion of wage growth and Autor and Handel (2013) find that the inclusion of job tasks significantly improves the explanatory power of a wage regression. Autor (2013) and Autor and Handel (2013) provide review of this literature, including numerous studies not discussed here.

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Wage and job-skill distributions in the National Compensation Survey

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A higher minimum wage promotes workplace safety: Evidence from the restaurant industry

A higher minimum wage promotes workplace safety: Evidence from the restaurant industry

Factors of development of the Russian additional professional education market

Using tools to distinguish general and occupation-specific skills

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