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    • Viscusi, W. Kip (Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2010)
      The refinement in worker fatality risk data used in hedonic wage studies and evidence from new stated preference studies have facilitated the exploration of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL). Although ...
    • Remiker, Erich (Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-21)
      Sticky wages are a well-known economic phenomenon, in which wages don’t respond quickly to changes in economic conditions. This is important in derivations of macroeconomic theory from microeconomic phenomena, in setting ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Ziliak, James Patrick (Journal of Risk and Uncertaintyhttp://www.springer.com/economics/economic+theory/journal/11166, 2010)
      We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile regressions with intercept heterogeneity. Latent heterogeneity is econometrically important and affects ...
    • Viscusi, W. Kip; Moore, Michael J., 1953- (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1991)
      In the standard compensating wage differential model, workers value their wage and workers' compensation components based on full job risk information. Market forces generate positive wage differentials as ex ante compensation ...