Employment Hazards - An Investigation of Market Performance

About the author

W. Kip Viscusi is George G. Allen Professor of Economics at Duke University and Associate Reporter on the American Law Institute tort liability reform project.

Summary

The safety of the workplace is now a highly visible public issue. Many want tighter regulation to reduce worker risk; others find government intervention ineffective and costly. Viscusi develops a theory of individual responses to job hazards under conditions of uncertainty in this exploration of how well markets for hazardous jobs actually work.

Product details

• Authors: W. Kip Viscusi
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.1980
• EAN: 9780674251762
• ISBN: 978-0-674-25176-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Economic Studies; Harvard Economic Studies; Harvard Economic Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business