Valuing personal safety and the gender earnings gap
Are there gender differences in the willingness to pay (WTP) for safer jobs? Using a laboratory experiment, we elicit participants' WTP for an early (perceived 'safe') on-site shift. We find that women forego larger earnings in order to secure an early shift more than men do, with a s...
- Autores:
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Becerra, Oscar
Guerra, José-Alberto
- Tipo de recurso:
- Work document
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2021
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/49341
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/49341
- Palabra clave:
- Safety concerns
Willingness to pay
Gender gaps
Experiment
J16, C92, D03
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/