TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - The effect of within-firm vertical pay disparity in occupational safety
JO  - Safety science
A1  - Ramírez, Cristian
A1  - Tarziján, Jorge
A1  - Singer, Marcos
SP  - e105497
EP  - e105497
VL  - 145
IS  - 
N2  - Greater vertical pay disparity is associated with compensation schemes that reward relative performance. Considering tournament theory as a leading framework for those schemes, along with boosting productivity, they are likely to increase workers' willingness to exert effort at the risk of injuries or occupational sickness. We find evidence of such pervasive effect on a novel database that includes more than 110,000 Chileans firms. For workers in the bottom half of the wage distribution, an increment of one standard deviation in within-firm vertical pay disparity is associated with an increase of around 10% in the number of injuries and almost 19% in the number of days lost. These results are negatively moderated by the proportion of female employees and state ownership.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0925-7535
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105497
ID  - ref1
ER  -