The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey

Çolak Olcay () and Palaz Serap ()
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Çolak Olcay: Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Usak University, Turkey
Palaz Serap: Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University, Turkey

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2017, vol. 64, issue 1, 19-31

Abstract: Occupational accidents are among the most important issues of the agenda of working life in Turkey recently. Recently the causes and consequences of occupational accidents which are related to human, occupational and environmental factors have received great attention from the researchers but it has been paid little attention to focused on economic factors. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to redressing this gap by examining the relationship between fatal occupational accidents and economic development over the period of 1980 to 2012 for Turkey. In this context, bounds testing approach which is also known as autoregressive distributed lag model is performed. The results indicate the existence of positive relationship between gross domestic product per capita and fatal occupational accidents in the short-run while in the long run this turns out to be in a negative way via economic growth and changes in structure of the economy.

Keywords: fatal occupational accidents; economic development; bounds testing approach; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 J28 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/saeb-2017-0002

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