Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Piece rates and workplace injury : does survey evidence support Adam Smith?

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Piece rates and workplace injury : does survey evidence support Adam Smith? / K.A. Bender, Colin Green and John S. Heywood. — Lancaster : Lancaster University Management School, 2010

(Working paper ; 2010/019)

Sumario: While piece rates are routinely associated with greater productivity and higher wages, they may also generate unanticipated effects. This paper uses cross-country European data to provide among the first broad survey evidence of a strong link between piece rates and workplace injury.
Despite unusually good controls for workplace hazards, job characteristics and worker effort, workers on piece rates suffer a large 5% point greater likelihood of injury. As injury rates are typically not controlled for when estimating the premium to piece rates, this raises the specter that a portion of the return to piece rates reflects a compensating wage differential for risk of injury

1. Accidentes de trabajo . 2. Lesiones . 3. Salarios . 4. Incentivos . 5. Prevención de accidentes . 6. Seguridad e higiene en el trabajo . I. Green, Collin . II. Heywood, John S. . III. Lancaster University Management School . IV. Title.