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Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks
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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...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Population Economics Journal website
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 1009–1042
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-06-07
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1432-1475
- ISSN:
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0933-1433
- Source identifiers:
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857109
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- pubs:857109
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- 2018-06-13
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- Giuntella et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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Copyright © 2018 The Authors.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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