Piece rates and workplace injury: Does survey evidence support Adam Smith?
Piece rates and workplace injury: Does survey evidence support Adam Smith?
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DOI：
10.1007/s00148-011-0393-5
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Heywood, John S.
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作者：
Bender, Keith A.;Green, Colin P.;Heywood, John S.
虽然计件工资通常与更高的生产率和工资联系在一起，但它们也会产生意想不到的影响。利用欧洲各国的数据，我们提供了第一个普遍调查证据，证明计件工资和工作场所伤害之间存在密切联系。尽管对工作场所的危险、工作特点和工人的努力程度进行了控制，计件工资工人受伤的可能性要高出5个百分点。尽管试图控制内生性和异质性，这种情况仍然存在。由于计件工资溢价估计很少控制受伤的可能性，这引起了人们的担忧，即部分溢价反映了对受伤风险的补偿性工资差异。
While piece rates are routinely associated with higher productivity and wages, they can also generate unanticipated effects. Using cross-country European data, we provide among the first general survey evidence of a strong link between piece rates and workplace injury. Despite controls for workplace hazards, job characteristics and worker effort, piece rates workers suffer a 5 percentage point greater likelihood of injury. This remains despite attempts to control for endogeneity and heterogeneity. As piece rate wage premium estimates rarely control for injury likelihood, this raises the specter that part of that premium reflects a compensating wage differential for risk of injury.