LABOR ECONOMICS
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Chapter 5, Problem 1RQ
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Determine how the worker decides whether to accept a safe job or a risky job.
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Assume that there are only two types of jobs in the labor market, the safe jobs and the risky jobs. The safe jobs have the probability that 0 employee gets injured. On the other hand, the risky jobs have the probability that 1 gets injured. Here, the indifference
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