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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2020
This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on establishment-level data for the US, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces...
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Mental health and working conditions in European countries
Cottini, Elena; Lucifora, Claudio - 2010
adverse overall working conditions on mental health distress. We show that labour market institutions, and health and safety … regulations can explain a significant part of cross-country differences. -- Working conditions ; mental health ; health and safety …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937034
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Improving health and safety in the informal sector : evidence from a randomized trial in Bangladesh
Islam, Asad; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Triyana, Margaret; Xia, Xing - 2023
paper, we conduct a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh that provides informal firms with information on occupational … health and safety (OHS) to improve their workplace practices. The intervention comprised two treatment arms: one focused … related to safety and a decent work environment. Moreover, both treatment arms experienced increased output and sales revenue …
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Do occupational demands explain the educational gradient in health?
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte; Künn-Nelen, Annemarie - 2014
The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent occupation-specific demands explain the relationship between education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German Microcensus 2009 data with a dataset including detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252607
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The impact of right-to-work laws on long hours and work schedules
Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Tan, Jian Qi - 2023
safety. We exploit variation in the timing of enactment across US states and compare workers in bordering counties across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423796
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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers: evidence from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2020
have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. These responses included a minimum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296545
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Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Nicodemo, Catia; … - 2016
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs characterized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572021
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Unsafe temperatures, unsafe jobs : the impact of weather conditions on work-related injuries
Filomena, Mattia; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
We estimate the impact of temperatures on work-related accident rates in Italy by using daily data on weather conditions matched to administrative daily data on work-related accidents. The identification strategy of the causal effect relies on the plausible exogeneity of short-term daily...
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The third worker : assessing the trade-off between employees and contractors
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
Firms make labour demand decisions not only between permanent and non-permanent employees but also increasingly more between employees and contractors. Indeed, this third work format can be attractive, also when employment protection law is restrictive. This paper examines empirically this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541305
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Public sector jobs: working in the public sector in Europe and the US
Checchi, Daniele; Fenizia, Alessandra; Lucifora, Claudio - 2021
This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical work on public employment management and presents novel stylized facts on public sector jobs. In the first part, we examine the evolution of managerial practices in the public sector and discuss the contractual arrangement of public sector...
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