This paper investigates the economic consequences of workplace accidents in the British labour market. For the empirical analysis, I use data on employment and earnings from the British Household Panel Survey and exploit fixed effects estimators to control for time-invariant unobserved workers’ characteristics. I provide evidence that accidents at work negatively affect both job opportunities and workers’ earnings. First, employment probabilities following a state of injury are significantly lower. This effect persists over time and is stronger in those regions where the macroeconomic conditions are worse. Second, a serious workplace accident also results in significant delayed wage penalties, which increase with the accident’s seriousness. The effect is lower in the public sector and unionized firms, where job and earnings protection is higher and physically demanding working conditions are not widespread, or if the worker moves to a new job which suits his/her post-injury abilities better.

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工作事故的经济后果

本文调查了英国劳动力市场工作场所事故的经济后果。对于实证分析，我使用来自英国家庭小组调查的就业和收入数据，并利用固定效应估计量来控制时不变的未观察到的工人特征。我提供的证据表明，工作事故对工作机会和工人的收入都有负面影响。首先，受伤后的就业概率显着降低。这种影响会随着时间的推移持续存在，并且在宏观经济状况较差的地区更为明显。其次，严重的工作场所事故也会导致严重的工资处罚延迟，随着事故的严重性而增加。公共部门和工会公司的影响较小，