Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Gabriele Mazzolini
Author-X-Name-First: Gabriele
Author-X-Name-Last: Mazzolini
Author-Email: gabriele.mazzolini@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Author-Workplace-Name: Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Title: The economic consequences of accidents at work
Abstract: 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 the macroeconomic conditions are worse. Second, a serious workplace accident also results in significant delayed wage penalties, which increase with the accident’s seriousness. The effect is lower in the public sector and unionized firms, where job and earnings protection is higher and physically demanding working conditions are not widespread, or if the worker moves to a new job which suits his/her post-injury abilities better.
Length: 31
Creation-Date: 2014-06
File-URL: http://dipartimenti.unicatt.it/economia-finanza-def15.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2014
Number: def15
Classification-JEL: J28, J71, J17. 
Keywords: accident at work, employment, earnings losses, BHPS
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie1:def15