IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aph/ajpbhl/10.2105-ajph.2007.131409_0.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Political economy of US states and rates of fatal occupational injury

Author

Listed:
  • Loomis, D.
  • Schulman, M.D.
  • Bailer, A.J.
  • Stainback, K.
  • Wheeler, M.
  • Richardson, D.B.
  • Marshall, S.W.

Abstract

Objectives. We investigated the extent to which the political economy of US states, including the relative power of organized labor, predicts rates of fatal occupational injury. Methods. We described states' political economies with 6 contextual variables measuring social and political conditions: "right-to-work" laws, union membership density, labor grievance rates, state government debt, unemployment rates, and social wage payments. We obtained data on fatal occupational injuries from the National Traumatic Occupational Fatality surveillance system and population data from the US national census. We used Poisson regression methods to analyze relationships for the years 1980 and 1995. Results. States differed notably with respect to political-economic characteristics and occupational fatality rates, although these characteristics were more homogeneous within rather than between regions. Industry and workforce composition contributed significantly to differences in state injury rates, but political-economic characteristics of states were also significantly associated with injury rates, after adjustment accounting for those factors. Conclusions. Higher rates of fatal occupational injury were associated with a state policy climate favoring business over labor, with distinct regional clustering of such state policies in the South and Northeast.

Suggested Citation

  • Loomis, D. & Schulman, M.D. & Bailer, A.J. & Stainback, K. & Wheeler, M. & Richardson, D.B. & Marshall, S.W., 2009. "Political economy of US states and rates of fatal occupational injury," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 99(8), pages 1400-1408.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2007.131409_0
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.131409
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.2105/AJPH.2007.131409
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2105/AJPH.2007.131409?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Lynda R Matthews & Scott J Fitzpatrick & Philip Bohle & Michael Quinlan, 2014. "Investigation and prosecution following workplace fatalities: Responding to the needs of families," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 25(2), pages 253-270, June.
    2. Roland Zullo, 2021. "Does the open shop harm union collective action?," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(2), pages 183-197, March.
    3. Hassan, M. Kabir & Karim, Md. Sydul & Kozlowski, Steven E., 2022. "Implications of public corruption for local firms: Evidence from corporate debt maturity," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).
    4. Simo Salminen & Donghyun Seo, 2015. "Future of Occupational Injuries," International Journal of Asian Social Science, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 5(6), pages 341-354, June.
    5. Stoffregen, Stacy A. & Giordano, Frank B. & Lee, Jin, 2019. "Psycho-socio-cultural factors and global occupational safety: Integrating micro- and macro-systems," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 226(C), pages 153-163.
    6. Gleeson, Shannon, 2012. "Leveraging health capital at the workplace: An examination of health reporting behavior among Latino immigrant restaurant workers in the United States," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 75(12), pages 2291-2298.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2007.131409_0. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.apha.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.