Journal Article
The economic consequences of accidents at work
Authors
Publication date
Oct 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
82 , 1068 -1093
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12358
ISSN
16
Subjects
Labour Market, Economics, Wages And Earnings, and Health
Links
University of Essex, Albert Sloman Library Periodicals *restricted to University of Essex registered users* - https://lib.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1584905
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