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Essays On Job-Related Risks And Worker Sorting, Teguh Yudo Wicaksono
Essays On Job-Related Risks And Worker Sorting, Teguh Yudo Wicaksono
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
This dissertation examines heterogeneity in the value of a statistical life (henceforth VSL) stemming from employer-provided health insurance (henceforth EHI) and worker sorting. The dissertation consists of three essays.
In the first essay (Chapter 2), I investigate the effect of health-driven productivity on the wage compensation for mortality risk, and how EHI influences VSL using the US labor market data. In this chapter I build a framework showing that the level of job risks influences the incentive of employers to provide EHI. The basic notion of the framework is that health insurance is an investment in health and health is …