How do on-the-job injuries and illnesses impact wealth?

Galizzi, Monica; Zagorsky, Jay L.

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2008.02.003

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“…Workers who lost wages directly following the injury had significantly lower income in the following years. Moreover, those who reported disability following an injury also experienced significant income loss over time, which was consistent with previous research [Galizzi and Zagorsky, ; Woock, ]. Of interest, the income loss for injured workers who were union members was significantly less than their nonunion counterparts, confirming the report by Woock [].…”

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“…The rich information and the longitudinal feature of the NLSY79 provide a valuable opportunity to explore long‐term outcomes of work‐related injuries. The NLSY79 has been widely used to study associations between injuries and race/ethnicity, gender, obesity, work schedules, health‐related productivity loss, and long‐term health outcomes, as well as income and wealth following work‐related injury [Berdahl, ; Galizzi and Zagorsky, ; Woock, ; Lin et al, ; Besen and Pransky, ; Dong et al, ,].…”

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“…Using the NLSY79 data, Galizzi and Zagorsky [] found that injured workers accumulated significantly less wealth compared to uninjured workers, with the largest differences found among those who had reported lost wages or lost employment attributed to injury. However, this study failed to show the wealth disparity in pre‐ and post‐injury periods between individuals in safer white‐collar jobs and those in riskier blue‐collar jobs, although the authors recognized the wealth variations among individuals in different job categories.…”

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Economic consequences of workplace injuries in the United States: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79)

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Economic consequences of workplace injuries in the United States: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79)

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“…Because the NLSY79 started being administered every other year after 1994, the incidence rates reported in Table actually indicate a decline in such rates over the years. Indeed, as was shown in an earlier study by Galizzi and Zagorsky (), such incidence first increased by age, peaking at the time when workers were 30 years old, and then declined as individual aged, and possibly, gained more on‐the‐job seniority and experience.…”

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On the Recurrence of Occupational Injuries and Workers' Compensation Claims

Galizzi

2012

Health Economics

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This paper represents the first study to estimate counts of individual occupational injuries and claims over long spells of working life (up to 13 years) in the USA. It explores data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. I found that 37% of all surveyed workers who had experienced one on-the-job accident reported at least one additional injury, but only 56% of all occupational injuries and illnesses resulted in workers' compensation claims. I estimated different count models to assess the effect of different individual worker and job characteristics on individual injury counts and workers' compensation claims counts. Lower educational levels, less tenure, work in dangerous industries and unskilled occupations, and job demands are found to be important determinants of multiple on-the-job injuries. The most interesting results, however, refer to the role played by individuals' pre-injury characteristics: early exposure to dangerous jobs is among the main determinants of higher counts of occupational injuries later in life. Early health limitations are also significant predictors of recurrent workers' compensation claims. These results provide new evidence about the important role played by both the health and the socioeconomic status of young people as determinants of their future occupational injuries.

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“…While a rich body of epidemiological research has focused on the determinants of on‐the‐job incidents, the economic literature has mainly focused on the economic outcomes suffered by injured workers . Few economic studies have explored the characteristics of workers who are being injured, and, among these, who suffer recurrent injuries or workers’ compensation claims .…”

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Workers’ Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries

Galizzi

Tempesti

2015

Risk Analysis

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This study explores the relationship between individuals' risk tolerance and occupational injuries. We analyze data from a national representative survey of U.S. workers that includes information about injuries, risk tolerance, cognitive and noncognitive attributes, and risky behaviors. We measure risk tolerance through questions regarding individuals' willingness to gamble on their lifetime income. We estimate zero-inflated count models to assess the role played by such measures on workers' recurrent injuries. We discuss some implications of our results for future research and occupational safety policies. Our results highlight the concurrent and changing role played by individual, work, and environmental factors in explaining recurrent incidents. They show that risk tolerance affects recurrent injuries, although not in the direction that proponents of the concept of proneness would expect. Our measure of risk aversion shows that individuals who are somewhat more risk tolerant have fewer recurrent injuries than those who are risk averse. But the estimated relationship is U-shaped, not monotonic and, therefore, not easy to predict. At the same time, we find that individuals' "revealed risk preferences"-specific risky behaviors-are related to higher injury probabilities. Demanding working conditions, measures of socioeconomic status, health, and safety problems experienced by workers during their youth remain among the most important factors explaining the phenomena of recurrent injuries. So our results contribute also to the important debate about the relationship between health and socioeconomic status.

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How do on-the-job injuries and illnesses impact wealth?

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Economic consequences of workplace injuries in the United States: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79)

Economic consequences of workplace injuries in the United States: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79)

On the Recurrence of Occupational Injuries and Workers' Compensation Claims

Workers’ Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries

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