Arbeitspapier

Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety

Using standard as well as recently developed univariate and bivariate count data models, this paper analyzes the determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation, introduced partly as early as in 1869, and the important role of foreign labor in manufacturing, the focus is on the impact of work organization and interdependence between native and foreign workers. The empirical results indicate that there are no significant differences between natives and foreign workers regarding technological determinants of workplace accidents. However, the employment of guestworkers has a strong positive effect on the job safety of natives. The estimates imply that a 1 percent increase in the employment of guestworkers is associated with a 0.4 percent decrease of severe accidents of natives.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16

Classification
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Subject
Workplace accidents
industrial organization
labor relations
immigration
count data models
Arbeitsschutz
Arbeitsunfall
Ausländische Arbeitskräfte
Schätzung
Deutschland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bauer, Thomas K.
Million, Andreas
Rotte, Ralph
Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
1998

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bauer, Thomas K.
  • Million, Andreas
  • Rotte, Ralph
  • Zimmermann, Klaus F.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 1998

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