When labor enforcement and immigration enforcement collide: Deterring worker complaints worsens workplace safety

Arbeitspapier

Regulatory agencies overseeing the labor market often rely on worker complaints to direct their enforcement. However, if workers face differential barriers to complain, this system could result in ineffective targeting and create disparities in working conditions. To investigate these implications, we examine how the onset of Secure Communities - a localized immigration enforcement program - affected occupational safety and health. Counties' participation in Secure Communities substantially reduced complaints to government safety regulators, but increased injuries, at workplaces with Hispanic workers. We show that these effects are most consistent with employers reducing safety inputs in response to workers' decreased willingness to complain.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Upjohn Institute Working Paper ; No. 21-353

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy ; Labor Standards: Working Conditions ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
• Thema: labor regulations ; workplace safety ; immigration enforcement

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Grittner, Amanda Melina ; Johnson, Matthew S.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
• (wo): Kalamazoo, MI
• (wann): 2021

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.17848/wp21-353
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/262381
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ