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workplace injury, and a greater likelihood of more severe injuries than all other employment types. Explanations for agency … workplace, and regulatory failure impacting upon temporary agency workers’ health and safety. The analysis supports the … contribute to workplace risks and create barriers to improving their experience. Many of these outcomes are a result of, or …
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This paper studies the provision of occupational safety when the labor market is subject to search frictions. While safety measures are costly for firms, they reduce workers' mortality. We show that the presence of search frictions decreases the socially optimal level of occupational safety...
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Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...
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This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes the available theoretical frameworks used by economists and psychologists to understand the...
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We study how union certification affects the enforcement of workplace-safety laws. To generate credible causal …
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Applying propensity score reweighting to Italian administrative data covering the period 1994-2012, we study the conditional distributions of injuries by wage of native and foreign workers and distinguish between the component that is explained by observable characteristics and the component...
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The most enduring measure of how individuals make personal decisions affecting their health and safety is the compensating wage differential for job safety risk revealed in the labor market via hedonic equilibrium outcomes. The decisions in turn reveal the value of a statistical life (VSL), the...
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the impact of the electoral results of an Italian populist party, the Lega Nord, on natives and foreigners' workplace …
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Regulatory agencies overseeing the labor market often rely on worker complaints to direct their enforcement. However, if workers face differential barriers to complain, this system could result in ineffective targeting and create disparities in working conditions. To investigate these...
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Does enhanced legal accountability of non-director executives improve workplace safety? We exploit an exogenous …. In a difference-in-differences framework, we show that the workplace injury rate of establishments of Delaware …-based compensation. Moreover, the reduction in workplace injuries brought about by the Gantler ruling benefits shareholders by leading to …
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