The Statistical Value of Injury Risk in Pakistan’s Construction and Manufacturing Sectors

dc.contributor.author	Ahmad Mujtaba Khan
dc.contributor.author	Asma Hyder
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-05T05:07:54Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-05T05:07:54Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/15541
dc.description	PP. 18, ill	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Although health and safety regulations are a key aspect of labor market policy making, very few studies have examined compensating wage differentials and the statistical value of injury in Pakistan’s context. This study looks at injury risk against occupation and industry, using data from the Labor Force Survey for 2013/14. We target five blue-collar occupations in two industries (construction and manufacturing), which tend to account for the highest number of injuries. However, we find that the statistical value of injury in these occupations is too small to reflect the wage premium that workers should be paid for risky jobs.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	© Lahore School of Economics	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Volume 22;No.1
dc.subject	Value of Injury	en_US
dc.subject	Industry	en_US
dc.subject	Labor Market Conditions	en_US
dc.subject	Public Policy	en_US
dc.subject	Pakistan	en_US
dc.title	The Statistical Value of Injury Risk in Pakistan’s Construction and Manufacturing Sectors	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US