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

The Relationship between Economic Development and Fatal Occupational Accidents: Evidence from Turkey 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. Keywords: fatal occupational accidents, economic development, bounds testing approach, Turkey JEL classification: C22, J28, O10 1. INTRODUCTION Occupational accidents are among the most important issues of the agenda of working life in Turkey recently. Occupational accidents have an enormous impact on the health of workers and on the economy in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics de Gruyter

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

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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. Keywords: fatal occupational accidents, economic development, bounds testing approach, Turkey JEL classification: C22, J28, O10 1. INTRODUCTION Occupational accidents are among the most important issues of the agenda of working life in Turkey recently. Occupational accidents have an enormous impact on the health of workers and on the economy in

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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics – de Gruyter

Published: Mar 1, 2017

Keywords: Business and Economics; Political Economics; Political Economics, other

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