TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Boone, Jan
AU  - Ours, Jan C. van
AU  - Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe
AU  - Zweimüller, Josef
        TI  - Recessions Are Bad for Workplace Safety
        PY  - 2011/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5688
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5688
        AB  - Workplace accidents are an important economic phenomenon. Yet, the pro-cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents are not well understood. They could be related to fluctuations in effort and working hours, but workplace accidents may also be affected by reporting behavior. Our paper uses unique data on workplace accidents from an Austrian matched worker-firm dataset to study in detail how economic incentives affect workplace accidents. We find that workers who reported an accident in a particular period of time are more likely to be fired later on. And, we find support for the idea that recessions influence the reporting of moderate workplace accidents: if workers think the probability of dismissals at the firm level is high, they are less likely to report a moderate workplace accident.
        KW  - cyclical fluctuations
KW  - economic incentives
KW  - workplace accidents
        ER  -