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October 1999

Changing inequality in work injuries and work timing

Daniel S. Hamermesh

A new study suggests that, over the past 20 years, the burdens of working at undesirable times?evenings and nights?and the risk of occupational injury have increasingly been borne by lower-wage workers

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