The Importance of Taking Technological Innovation Into Account in Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Worker Health and Safety Regulation

Abstract Regulation of worker health and safety is acknowledged to result in health benefits to workers and economic costs to employers. The latter are sometimes shared by workers and consumers in the form of lower wages/salary increases and higher prices. However, the history of occupational hea...

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Main Author: Ashford, Nicholas A.
Language:en_US
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1585