Trade exposure, immigrants and workplace injuries

Mattia Filomena, Matteo Picchio and Alessia Lo Turco

No 488, Working Papers from Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (I), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali

Abstract: We study the effects of globalization on workplace accidents in the Italian manufacturing sector from 2008 to 2019. We focus on both the local intensity of import exposure to China and the share of foreign-born residents. To handle potential endogeneity concerns, we instrument the import exposure to China with that of other high-income countries and local immigration exposure with historical co-national local settlements. Our findings highlight a worsening of workplace safety following an increase in import competition, especially for male workers. An inspection of the channels suggests that the effect works through an increasing workload.

Keywords: Workplace injuries; globalization; import competition; immigration; shift-share instruments. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F16 I1 J28 J61 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39
Date: 2024-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-int, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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