The impact of worker’s age on the consequences of occupational accidents: empirical evidence using Spanish data

Roberto Bande and Elva López-Mourelo
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Elva López Mourelo

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Abstract: This paper examines the impact of worker’s age on the consequences of occupational injuries. Using data from the Spanish Statistics on Accidents at Work for 2004-2010, a multinomial model is estimated in order to analyse the impact of the age on the probability of suffering a severe or fatal accident. Further, a duration model is used to assess the effect of worker’s age on the length of sick leave caused by occupational injuries. The analysis shows that the probability of suffering a severe or fatal accident, as well as the duration of the sick leave, increases with the worker’s age once personal, job, and accident characteristics are controlled for. From a policy perspective, the results point out that decisions about delaying the retirement age require additional measures, such as the occupational reallocation of these older workers towards tasks with lower incidence rates, in order to minimise these effects

Keywords: occupational accidents; ageing; sick leave (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J28 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-lab and nep-lma
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Journal Article: The Impact of Worker’s Age on the Consequences of Occupational Accidents: Empirical Evidence Using Spanish Data (2015)
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