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Author: Galizzi, Monica
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1. Galizzi, Monica
On the Recurrence of Occupational Injuries and Workers' Compensation Claims
Health Economics 22,5 (May 2013): 582-599.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.2829/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Health Factors; Injuries, Workplace; Labor Force Participation; Occupations; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper represents the first study to estimate counts of individual occupational injuries and claims over long spells of working life (up to 13 years) in the USA. It explores data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979.

I found that 37% of all surveyed workers who had experienced one on-the-job accident reported at least one additional injury, but only 56% of all occupational injuries and illnesses resulted in workers' compensation claims. I estimated different count models to assess the effect of different individual worker and job characteristics on individual injury counts and workers' compensation claims counts.

Lower educational levels, less tenure, work in dangerous industries and unskilled occupations, and job demands are found to be important determinants of multiple on-the-job injuries. The most interesting results, however, refer to the role played by individuals' pre-injury characteristics: early exposure to dangerous jobs is among the main determinants of higher counts of occupational injuries later in life. Early health limitations are also significant predictors of recurrent workers' compensation claims. These results provide new evidence about the important role played by both the health and the socioeconomic status of young people as determinants of their future occupational injuries. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Bibliography Citation
Galizzi, Monica. "On the Recurrence of Occupational Injuries and Workers' Compensation Claims." Health Economics 22,5 (May 2013): 582-599.
2. Galizzi, Monica
Tempesti, Tommaso
Workers' Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries
Risk Analysis 35,10 (October 2015): 1858-1875.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.12364/abstract
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Accidents; Cognitive Ability; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Injuries, Workplace; Noncognitive Skills; Risk Perception; Risk-Taking; Socioeconomic Status (SES)

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This study explores the relationship between individuals' risk tolerance and occupational injuries. We analyze data from a national representative survey of U.S. workers that includes information about injuries, risk tolerance, cognitive and noncognitive attributes, and risky behaviors. We measure risk tolerance through questions regarding individuals' willingness to gamble on their lifetime income. We estimate zero-inflated count models to assess the role played by such measures on workers' recurrent injuries. We discuss some implications of our results for future research and occupational safety policies.

Our results highlight the concurrent and changing role played by individual, work, and environmental factors in explaining recurrent incidents. They show that risk tolerance affects recurrent injuries, although not in the direction that proponents of the concept of proneness would expect. Our measure of risk aversion shows that individuals who are somewhat more risk tolerant have fewer recurrent injuries than those who are risk averse. But the estimated relationship is U-shaped, not monotonic and, therefore, not easy to predict. At the same time, we find that individuals' "revealed risk preferences"--specific risky behavior--are related to higher injury probabilities. Demanding working conditions, measures of socioeconomic status, health, and safety problems experienced by workers during their youth remain among the most important factors explaining the phenomena of recurrent injuries. So our results contribute also to the important debate about the relationship between health and socioeconomic status.

Bibliography Citation
Galizzi, Monica and Tommaso Tempesti. "Workers' Risk Tolerance and Occupational Injuries." Risk Analysis 35,10 (October 2015): 1858-1875.
3. Galizzi, Monica
Zagorsky, Jay L.
How Do On-the-Job Injuries and Illnesses Impact Wealth?
Labour Economics 16,1 (January 2009): 26-36.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0927537108000171
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Benefits; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Heterogeneity; Illnesses; Income; Income Distribution; Injuries, Workplace; Unemployment Compensation; Wage Differentials; Wealth; Well-Being

This research focuses on one neglected area of workers' compensation research, the effect of injury and illness on net worth. We track participants in the NLSY79: one-third of these baby boomers were hurt at work, but 38% of them did not file for workers' compensation. We find that the typical young baby boomer who is never injured has both much higher absolute wealth and wealth growth rates than boomers who are ever injured. Regression results that control for unobserved heterogeneity suggest, however, that the injury does not predict lower wealth unless workers have reported wage losses or spells off work because of their accidents. For these employees wealth is dramatically reduced, regardless of their participation in the workers' compensation system. We also find that injured workers significantly reduce their consumption over time. These results raise new questions about the adequacy of workers' compensation benefits and the quality of jobs injured workers are able to return to. They suggest that sudden health problems caused by occupational injuries may affect more than employers' costs and individuals' incomes; they may have also wider and longer lasting consequences in term of families' wealth and well-being.
Bibliography Citation
Galizzi, Monica and Jay L. Zagorsky. "How Do On-the-Job Injuries and Illnesses Impact Wealth?" Labour Economics 16,1 (January 2009): 26-36.