On-the-Job Inquiry: Employment History and Hidden Losses

描述(申请人提供)：本研究项目将检验个人的个人特征和受伤前的劳动力市场经验，以及雇主的特征、行为和工作条件，将决定工作场所伤害的长期社会和经济后果的假设。这项研究的目的是：(1)根据工人受伤前的劳动参与度、雇佣关系和工作条件等信息，估计工伤或疾病对个人未来就业的影响；(2)确定可能导致工伤和疾病反复发生的因素；(3)估计工伤/疾病对未来收入和其他隐性经济后果(如失去附带福利，需要依赖政府援助计划)的影响；(4)评估受伤对受伤工人家庭的影响(根据配偶就业和子女福利的变化)；(5)衡量接受或不接受工人补偿福利的工人之间结果的差异。为了研究这些主题，研究将使用几个概率模型和描述连续因变量随时间变化的模型。这位候选人是一位经济学家，他之前的研究通过使用行政数据来研究劳动力流动的主题。她有使用工人补偿数据的经验。她将使用的丰富数据(NLSY)将使她能够拓宽和发展她的个人研究议程，并确立她作为一名对职业安全和健康主题感兴趣的经济学家的地位。她将在两位对Nora优先领域非常熟悉的经济学家的指导下工作。她还将利用几位活跃在职业流行病学、人体工程学和工作环境政策等研究领域的大学同事的专业知识。通过参加课程和研讨会，她将进一步发展她的计量经济学技能，并学习如何从公共卫生的角度丰富对个人行为的经济分析，并更广泛地了解受伤工人的就业经历。这笔赠款将确保她有足够的研究时间，为更好地确定她未来的研究议程和加强她的研究技能奠定坚实的基础。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This research project will test the hypothesis that individual's personal characteristics and pre-injury labor market experience, together with employers' characteristics, behaviors and working conditions, will determine the long lasting social and economic consequences of workplace injuries. The study aims: (1) to estimate the effect of a job related injury or illness on individuals' future employment given information on workers' pre-injury labor force participation, employment relations, and working conditions; (2) to determine the factors that may explain recurrent episodes of work related injury and illness; (3) to estimate the effect of a job related injury/illness on future earnings and on other hidden economic consequences (such as loss of fringe benefits, and need to rely on government assistance programs); (4) to evaluate the effect of an injury on the families of injured workers (in terms of changes in spouses' employment and children well-being); (5) to measure variation in outcomes among workers who receive or do not receive workers' compensation benefits. To study these topics the research will use several probability models and models describing the variation of continuous dependent variables over time. The candidate is an economist whose previous research has looked at themes of labor mobility through the use of administrative data. She has experience in using workers' compensation data. The richness of the data she will use (the NLSY), will permit her to broaden and develop her individual research agenda and to establish herself as an economist interested in topics of occupational safety and health. She will work under the mentorship of two economists with large familiarity with the NORA priority areas. She will also draw on the expertise of several university colleagues who are active in research areas such as occupational epidemiology, ergonomics, and work environment policy. Through the participation to courses and seminars she will further develop her econometric skills and learn how to enrich the economic analysis of individual behaviors with a public health perspective and a broader understanding of injured workers' employment experiences. This grant would secure her sufficient research time to build such solid base for better defining her future research agenda and strengthening her research skills.