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<div class="csl-entry">Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, A., Sanchez Romero, M., & Kerndler, M. (2022, May 20). <i>Wealth for Health?</i> [Conference Presentation]. Workshop on Health and the Labour Market, Trier, Germany.</div>
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12708/78064
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We study the impact of mortality risk at the workplace on mortality differentials. To this purpose we build a life-cycle search
and matching model with wealth accumulation where on-the-job mortality risk is bargained between workers and firms. Our
quantitative analysis shows that wealthy individuals optimally choose lower mortality risk. Getting wealthy, however, either
requires higher risk-taking in the early career or a favorable labor market history. We document that mortality differentials
increase over the life-cycle as a result of diverging labor market histories that create heterogeneous incentives for risk-taking.
