Volume 38, Number 3 (Summer) 2003
Boden, Leslie I., and Monica Galizzi. 2003. "Income Losses of Women and Men Injured at Work." Journal of Human Resources 38(3):722-757.
Women and men injured at work in Wisconsin during 1989 and 1990
have similar levels of lost earnings in the quarter of injury. However, in the
three and one-half years after the post-injury quarter. women lose an average of
9.2 percent of earnings. while men lose only 6.5 percent. Even after accounting
for covariates with a variant of the Oaxaca-Blinder-Neumark decomposition, the
disparity in long-term losses remains. Differences in injury-related
nonemployment account for about half the covariate-adjusted gap over the
four-year post-injury period. Changes in hours worked may explain all or part of
the remaining gap. Gender differences in labor supply appear likely to account
for much of the disparity in losses. but discrimination remains a viable
explanation.
Leslie I. Boden is a professor of public health at Boston University and Monica Galizzi is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. This research was supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Research Grant #R01 CCR112141 and Research Grant #1R01 OH03751) and the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The authors wish to thank Jeff Biddle, Tim Heeren, Joni Hersch, Kevin Lang, Austin Lee, Bob Reville, and participants in the Workers' Compensation Research Group for their helpful comments and suggestions. The administrative data used in this article can be obtained beginning February 2004 through January 2007 from Leslie I. Boden, Boston University School of Public Health, 715 Albany St.. Boston. MA 02465 ( lboden@bu.edu ).
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