57 research outputs found
Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany: Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation
The Effect of Childhood Education on Old Age Cognitive Abilities: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Are public sector workers different? Cross-European evidence from elderly workers and retirees
Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
Health Effects of Instruction Intensity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in German High-Schools
Retirement and perceived social inferiority strongly link with health inequalities in older age: decomposition of a concentration index of poor health based on Polish cross-sectional data
Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks
This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003–2013), we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs characterised by lower physical burden and injury risk. The results also show important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels of education, but has no significant effect on those with low levels. We also find that that immigration led to an improvement self-reported measures of native workers’ health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human and financial costs typically associated with workplace injuries
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