Wage theft and life expectancy inequities in the United States: A simulation study.

ABSTRACT: Wage theft - employers not paying workers their legally entitled wages and benefits - costs workers billions of dollars annually. We tested whether preventing wage theft could increase U.S. life expectancy and decrease inequities therein. We obtained nationally representative estimates of the 2001-2014 association between income and expected age at death for 40-year-olds (40 plus life expectancy at age 40) compiled from tax and Social Security Administration records, and estimates of the burden of wage theft from several sources, including estimates regarding minimum-wage violations (not paying workers the minimum wage) developed from Current Population Survey data. After modeling the relationship between income and expected age at death, we simulated the effects of scenarios preventing wa

SUBMITTER: Eisenberg-Guyot J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9246227 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature