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Does minimum wage affect workplace safety?
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SYSNO ASEP 0490353 Document Type V - Research Report R&D Document Type O - Ostatní Title Does minimum wage affect workplace safety? Author(s) Hradil, Vít (NHU-N) Issue data Prague: CERGE-EI, 2018 ISSN 1211-3298 Series CERGE-EI Working Paper Series Series number 615 Number of pages 35 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords minimum wage ; job safety ; occupational injuries and illnesses Subject RIV AH - Economics OECD category Applied Economics, Econometrics Institutional support NHU-N - RVO:67985998 Annotation Empirical evidence on the employment effects of minimum wage legislation suggests the possibility that firms react to increases in low-skilled labor costs driven by minimum wages
by reducing investments in non-wage job aspects, which can mitigate the need for layoffs. Such adjustments may involve the worsening of workplace safety. To evaluate the hypothesis that increases in minimum wages result in a higher incidence of occupational injuries and illnesses, I use employer-level data from the United States and variation in state minimum wages during 1996-2013. The results suggest that states which increase their minimum wage experience an increase in the incidence of occupational injuries and illnesses. The effect appears stronger in industries that employ large numbers of low-wage workers, and those where the workforce is intensively exposed to health risks.Workplace Economics Institute Contact Tomáš Pavela, pavela@cerge-ei.cz, Tel.: 224 005 122 Year of Publishing 2019 Electronic address https://www.cerge-ei.cz/pdf/wp/Wp615.pdf
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