Safety Practices, Firm Culture, and Workplace Injuries

Richard J. Butler and Yong-Seung Park
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Richard J. Butler: Brigham Young University
Yong-Seung Park: Kyung Hee University

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Abstract: Butler and Park present analysis of the impact of various HRM practices on firms’ workers’ compensation costs; specifically, which practices lower firms’ workers’ compensation costs and whether the impact is the result of changes in technical efficiency or comes through induced changes in workers’ behavior.

Keywords: workplace injuries; injured workers; workplace safety; HRM; human resource management; workers' compensation; disabiled workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
ISBN: cloth 9780880992770 paper 9780880992756
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