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Compensating Differentials For Gender-Specific Job Injury Risks, Joni Hersch
Compensating Differentials For Gender-Specific Job Injury Risks, Joni Hersch
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Women have largely been excluded from analyses of compensating differentials for job risk since they are predominantly employed in safer, white-collar occupations. New data reveal that their injury experience is considerable. One-third of the total injury and illness cases with days away from work accrue to female workers. Adjusted for employment, women are 71 percent as likely as men to experience an injury or illness. As one would predict on theoretical grounds, these risks generate compensating differentials. Based on gender-specific injury incidence rates for both industry and occupation, I find strong evidence of compensating wage differentials for the job risk …
Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism By Labor Unions, Randall Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab
Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism By Labor Unions, Randall Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This paper investigates the increased shareholder activism by labor unions and their pension funds, who are now the most aggressive institutional shareholders. Sometimes unions propose traditional corporate-governance measures through procedures familiar to shareholders. Only the union sponsor is novel. But recently unions have pushed innovative methods to get corporations to listen to shareholder complaints. These methods include mandatory amendment of corporate by-laws by shareholders and floor proposals submitted for a shareholder vote at the annual meeting. Unions as shareholders have conflicting roles. We distinguish union-shareholder initiatives designed to further unions' traditional organizing and collective bargaining goals from those that enhance …