OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD AND WAGE COMPENSATING DIFFERENTIALS

This paper is the first study investigating wage-risk relationships for both fatal and non-fatal work-related accidents on the basis of a large occupational data bank. Risk variables cover the whole array of potential configurations found in the literature, while based on the compensated accidents over a four-year period for the province of Quebec. We first estimated the model using the standard techniques developed by previous researchers and then submitted our initial results to additional tests that, in the past, had disturbing effects. It became apparent, however, that in all but one case the results remained positive and significant.