Drivers and frictions of workplace accidents: an empirical investigation of cross-country European heterogeneity

Angelo Castaldo, Anna Rita Germani (), Alessia Marrocco, Marco Forti and Andrea Salustri

Applied Economics, 2024, vol. 56, issue 24, 2931-2946

Abstract: This paper presents an empirical investigation on the determinants of workplace accidents across Europe and focuses on the extent to which production-system characteristics (employment sectoral risk, size of firms, temporary contracts), business cycle and socio-economic factors (GDP, level of investments, unemployment, education) and other territorial controls (crime index) might account for cross-country heterogeneity. We use Eurostat data, and our panel is composed of 27 European countries over the period 2010–2018. Implementing different functional forms and estimation methodologies (pooled OLS, panel fixed and random effects models, system-GMM and semiparametric fixed effects model), we find robust evidence that productive-system structural characteristics, business cycle controls and the other territorial variables are effective in explaining European cross-country heterogeneity. Moreover, we find evidence of a nonlinear relationship between GDP and occupational accidents.

Date: 2024
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