TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bartel,Ann P.
AU  - Thomas,Lacy Glenn
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - OSHA Enforcement, Industrial Compliance and Workplace Injuries
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 1982; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper develops and tests a three-equation simultaneous model of OSHA enforcement behavior, industrial compliance and workplace injuries. The enforcement equation is based on the assumption that OSHA acts as a political institution that gains support through the transfer of wealth from firms to employees; the empirical results are largely consistent with this notion. Contrary to previous work, we find that OSHA enforcement efforts have, indeed, had a statistically significant impact on industrial compliance and, further, that this compliance has led to a statistically significant decrease in worker injuries. The point estimate of the elasticity of the lost workday rate with respect to the OSHA inspection rate is -.04
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w0953
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w0953
ER  -