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The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey

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  • Çolak Olcay

    (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Usak University, Turkey)

  • Palaz Serap

    (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University, Turkey)

Abstract

Occupational accidents are among the most important issues of the agenda of working life in Turkey recently. Recently the causes and consequences of occupational accidents which are related to human, occupational and environmental factors have received great attention from the researchers but it has been paid little attention to focused on economic factors. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to redressing this gap by examining the relationship between fatal occupational accidents and economic development over the period of 1980 to 2012 for Turkey. In this context, bounds testing approach which is also known as autoregressive distributed lag model is performed. The results indicate the existence of positive relationship between gross domestic product per capita and fatal occupational accidents in the short-run while in the long run this turns out to be in a negative way via economic growth and changes in structure of the economy.

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  • Çolak Olcay & Palaz Serap, 2017. "The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey," Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 64(1), pages 19-31, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:aicuec:v:64:y:2017:i:1:p:19-31:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/saeb-2017-0002
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    Keywords

    fatal occupational accidents; economic development; bounds testing approach; Turkey;
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    JEL classification:

    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General

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