title: Why Do Unionized Workers Have More Nonfatal Occupational Injuries? 
creator: Donado, Alejandro
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: Most empirical studies have estimated a positive union-nonunion “injury gap,” suggesting that unionized workers are more  likely to have  a nonfatal  occupational injury than their nonunion counterparts. Using individual-level panel data for the first time, I study several explanations for this puzzling result. I find that controlling for  time-invariant individual fixed effects already reduces the gap by around 40%. Some of the explanations that I study contribute in reducing this gap even further. I, however, do not find evidence of the gap becoming negative and the impact of unions on nonfatal injuries appears to be insignificant at best. 
date: 2013-12
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15959/1/Donado_2013_dp551.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00015959
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-159590
identifier:   Donado, Alejandro  (2013) Why Do Unionized Workers Have More Nonfatal Occupational Injuries?  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15959/
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language: eng