eprintid: 15959
rev_number: 14
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2744
dir: disk0/00/01/59/59
datestamp: 2013-12-23 14:28:58
lastmod: 2015-04-22 16:26:52
status_changed: 2013-12-23 14:28:58
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Donado, Alejandro
title: Why Do Unionized Workers Have More Nonfatal Occupational Injuries? 
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
keywords: labor unions, occupational health and safety, working conditions, panel data 
abstract: 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
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00015959
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0551
ppn_swb: 1653191090
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-159590
language: eng
bibsort: DONADOALEJWHYDOUNION201312
full_text_status: public
series: Discussion Paper Series / University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
volume: 0551
pages: 43
citation:   Donado, Alejandro  (2013) Why Do Unionized Workers Have More Nonfatal Occupational Injuries?  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/15959/1/Donado_2013_dp551.pdf