The impact of the business cycle on occupational injuries in the UK

Davies, Rhys; Jones, P. G.; Núñez, Imanol

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.04.033

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“…In addition, Asfaw et al (2011) examined the association between the business cycle and the incidence of workplace injuries during the period of 1976 to 2007 across five industry sectors and found that mining, construction and manufacturing injury rates were most sensitive to the business cycle. Likewise Davies et al (2009) provide evidence of pro-cyclical association between business cycle and injury rates in the UK, and the strongest affects were found within the construction and manufacturing sectors.…”

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“…These are: economic factors such as unemployment, the general economic climate, economic growth, technological infrastructure, social and cultural development levels, and occupational health and safety, environmental and organizational factors such as job design, work environment, work organization and workplace characteristics, personal factors such as monthly earnings, age, gender, motivation, and work experience (Fabiano et al, 2004). According to the studies done on work-related accidents, all the factors mentioned above have impact on occupational accidents but among them the economic factors may be considered the most important especially over the long time periods (Asfaw et al, 2011;Davies et al, 2009;Lander et al, 2016;Nielsen et al, 2015). Some studies on relationship between the business cycle and occupational accidents support that the nature of occupational accidents is related to the business cycles; the number of accident tends to increase during economic upswings and decrease during economic downturns (Robinson, 1988;Nichols, 1991).…”

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The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey

Çolak¹,

Palaz²

2017

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business

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Occupational accidents are among the most important issues of the agenda of working life in Turkey recently. Recently the causes and consequences of occupational accidents which are related to human, occupational and environmental factors have received great attention from the researchers but it has been paid little attention to focused on economic factors. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to redressing this gap by examining the relationship between fatal occupational accidents and economic development over the period of 1980 to 2012 for Turkey. In this context, bounds testing approach which is also known as autoregressive distributed lag model is performed. The results indicate the existence of positive relationship between gross domestic product per capita and fatal occupational accidents in the short-run while in the long run this turns out to be in a negative way via economic growth and changes in structure of the economy.

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The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey

Çolak¹,

Palaz²

2017

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business

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“…The primary sources and magnitudes of most inefficient industrial sectors are overtime work and death caused by excess. Davies et al [83] observed that both minor and major injuries are related to working overtime. Indeed, overtime work can lead to greater fatigue, which can undermine employees' safety awareness and health.…”

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Incorporating Workplace Injury to Measure the Safety Performance of Industrial Sectors in Taiwan

Yeh

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:The severity of workplace injuries varies by industry. Information on workplace injuries can enable firms and governments to effectively improve their safety performance based on the specific contexts of each industry. Incorporating the three workplace injury rates (being wounded or ill, disability, and death), a data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is developed to evaluate the safety performance of 17 industrial sectors in Taiwan. The results suggest that the Taiwanese government should pay particular attention to the mining and quarrying industry, which has the lowest safety performance. Additionally, the results provide abundant information for the Taiwanese government to design industry safety regulations in a way that may prompt firms to develop a sustainable economy by improving their health and safety practices and enhancing their overall safety performance.

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“…Boone and van Ours (2006), Davies et al (2009) and Boone et al (2011) suggested that cyclical fluctuations in observed workplace accidents are related to reporting behavior rather than caused by changes in workplace safety. Under-reporting occurs because workers are afraid that reporting an accident may lead to job loss or denial of promotion.…”

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Temporary jobs and the severity of workplace accidents

Picchio

Ours

2017

Journal of Safety Research

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Introduction: From the point of view of workplace safety, it is important to know whether having a temporary job has an effect on the severity of workplace accidents. We present an empirical analysis on the severity of workplace accidents by type of contract. Method: We used micro data collected by the Italian national institute managing the mandatory insurance against work related accidents. We estimated linear models for a measure of the severity of the workplace accident. We controlled for time-invariant fixed effects at worker and firm levels to disentangle the impact of the type of contract from the spurious one induced by unobservables at worker and firm levels. Results: Workers with a temporary contract, if subject to a workplace accident, were more likely to be confronted with severe injuries than permanent workers. When correcting the statistical analysis for injury underreporting of temporary workers, we found that most of, but not all, the effect is driven by the under-reporting bias. Conclusions: The effect of temporary contracts on the injury severity survived the inclusion of worker and firm fixed effects and the correction for temporary workers' injury under-reporting. This however does not exclude the possibility that, within firms, the nature of the work may vary between different categories of workers. For example, temporary workers might be more likely to be assigned by the employer dangerous tasks because they might have less bargaining power. Practical implications: The findings will be of help in designing public policy effective in increasing temporary workers' safety at work and limiting their injury under-reporting.

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The impact of the business cycle on occupational injuries in the UK

Cited by 80 publications

References 19 publications

The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey

The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey

Incorporating Workplace Injury to Measure the Safety Performance of Industrial Sectors in Taiwan

Temporary jobs and the severity of workplace accidents

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