Analysing Industrial Accidents in European Countries Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Eugenia Nissi () and Agnese Rapposelli ()
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Eugenia Nissi: Università d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara
Agnese Rapposelli: Università d’Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara

Chapter Chapter 5 in Social Exclusion, 2012, pp 93-101 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There has been increasing interest in improving working conditions and in reducing occupational accidents and diseases in the European Union. This paper examines the performance of fifteen European countries, in respect of this issue, in three economic sectors—manufacturing, construction and distribution trades—by means of the non-parametric approach to efficiency measurement, represented by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A linear programming framework is therefore used to construct a production frontier which allows measurement of relative efficiency among national institutions in the sample considered.

Keywords: Occupational safety and health; Accidents at work; Technical efficiency; Data envelopment analysis; Undesirable outputs; J28; J81; L60; L74; L81; C61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2772-9_5

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