Why do unionized workers have more nonfatal occupational injuries?

• Verfasst von: Donado Gomez, Alejandro [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Why do unionized workers have more nonfatal occupational injuries?
• Verf.angabe: Alejandro Donado
• Jahr: 2015
• Jahr des Originals: 2014
• Umfang: 31 S.
• Fussnoten: Article first published online: November 3, 2014 ; Gesehen am 22.06.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: ILR review
• Ort Quelle: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 1947
• Jahr Quelle: 2015
• Band/Heft Quelle: 68(2015), 1, Seite 153-183
• ISSN Quelle: 2162-271X
• DOI: doi:10.1177/0019793914556244
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Donado Gomez, Alejandro, 1977 - : Why do unionized workers have more nonfatal occupational injuries?. - 2015
• Sach-SW: labor unions
• Sach-SW: occupational health and safety
• Sach-SW: working conditions
• Sach-SW: panel data
• K10plus-PPN: 1701686880

Abstract

Most empirical studies have estimated a positive union–nonunion “injury gap,” suggesting that unionized workers are more likely than their nonunion counterparts to have a nonfatal occupational injury. Using individual-level panel data for the first time in this type of study, the author explores several explanations for this puzzling result. He finds that controlling for time-invariant individual fixed effects already reduces the gap by around 40%. Some of the explanations he studies contribute to reducing this gap even further. The author does not, however, find evidence of the gap becoming negative, and the impact of unions on nonfatal injuries appears to be insignificant at best.