When Weather Wounds Workers: The Impact of Temperature on Workplace Accidents

Katharina Drescher and Benedikt Janzen

No 226, Working Papers from Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE)

Abstract: We study the effects of temperature on occupational health using administrative data on Swiss occupational accidents from 1996 to 2019. Our results imply that on hot days (Tmax ≥30◦C) the number of occupational accidents increases by 7.4% and on ice days (Tmax

Keywords: Occupational Health; Labor Supply; Climate Change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2023-07
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