The economic consequences of accidents at work

Publication type

Journal Article

Author

Publication date

October 15, 2020

Summary:

This paper investigates the economic consequences of workplace accidents in the British labour market. For the empirical analysis, I use data on employment and earnings from the British Household Panel Survey and exploit fixed effects estimators to control for time‐invariant unobserved workers’ characteristics. I provide evidence that accidents at work negatively affect both job opportunities and workers’ earnings. First, employment probabilities following a state of injury are significantly lower. This effect persists over time and is stronger in those regions where unemployment rate is higher. Second, a serious workplace accident also results in significant delayed wage penalties, which increase with the accident's seriousness.

Published in

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 82 , p.1 -1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12358

ISSN

3059049

Subjects

Link

- https://lib.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1584905

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