caa a22 4500 467889511 CHVBK 20180406152744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10888-005-9008-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10888-005-9008-2 Safety segregation: The importance of gender, race, and ethnicity on workplace risk [Elektronische Daten] [John Leeth, John Ruser] Using micro data of the Bureau of Labor Statistics we examine the extent and the causes of workplace risk inequality in the United States. Far more men than women and far more blacks and Hispanics than whites are killed or injured at work. Occupational differences between men and women and among the races explain most, but not all, of the workplace risk inequality in the United States. After controlling for occupation, men experience twice as many workplace fatalities as women but fewer nonfatal injuries, while black and Hispanic males experience slightly more workplace fatalities than white males but fewer nonfatal workplace injuries. We find little evidence men choose higher risk jobs and women lower risk jobs because of differences in economic circumstances or risk preferences. But economic and taste factors explain large fractions of the fatal and the nonfatal injury rate differences by race/ethnicity. Workplace risk inequality among the races primarily reflects differences in educational attainment. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005 economic inequality nationallicence employment conditions nationallicence fatalities nationallicence hedonic equilibrium nationallicence non-fatal injuries nationallicence Oaxaca decomposition nationallicence occupational choice nationallicence standardized injury rates nationallicence workplace safety nationallicence Leeth John Department of Economics, Bentley College, 175 Forest Street, 02452-4705, Waltham, MA, USA aut Ruser John U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 1441 L Street NW, BE-5, 20230, Washington, DC, USA aut The Journal of Economic Inequality Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/2(2006-08-01), 123-152 1569-1721 4:2<123 2006 4 10888 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-005-9008-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-005-9008-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Leeth John Department of Economics, Bentley College, 175 Forest Street, 02452-4705, Waltham, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ruser John U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 1441 L Street NW, BE-5, 20230, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic Inequality Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/2(2006-08-01), 123-152 1569-1721 4:2<123 2006 4 10888 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer