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Title: Hazardous Occupations Within the Job Hierarchy
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Robinson, James C. |
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Hazardous Occupations Within the Job Hierarchy Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 27,2 (March 1988): 241-250. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb01004.x/abstract Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley Keyword(s): Health Factors; Job Hazards; Job Rewards; Job Status; Labor Market, Secondary; Wage Levels Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Businesses that utilize hazardous technologies have the tendency to assign these occupations to undesirable job ladders or to subcontract them to secondary labor market firms in order to minimize the level of compensating wage and nonwage differentials they must pay. The outcome of this process in terms of the location of hazardous jobs within the overall structure of jobs is examined for the years 1974-1982. In addition to health and safety factors, four types of job attributes are considered. These are: (1) job content and worker autonomy; (2) possibilities for training and promotion; (3) job security; and (4) earnings. Four independent sources of statistical data are used to measure the relation between health and safety hazards and the other job characteristics. The results show that hazardous jobs offer significantly less worker autonomy, less on-the-job training, poorer promotion possibilities, greater risk of temporary and permanent layoff, and lower wage levels than safe occupations. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Robinson, James C. "Hazardous Occupations Within the Job Hierarchy." Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 27,2 (March 1988): 241-250.
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