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...

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Autores:
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/