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Historically, worker movements have played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Firms traditionally oppose better health standards. According to our in- terpretation, workplace safety is costly for firms but increases average health of workers and thereby aggregate labour supply. A laissez-faire approach in which firms set safety standards is suboptimal as workers are not fully informed of health risks associated with jobs. Safety standards set by better-informed trade unions are output and welfare increasing.

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Paper provided by Gutenberg School of Management and Economics, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in its series Working Papers with number 1010.

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Length: 26 pages
Date of creation: 19 Aug 2010
Date of revision: 19 Aug 2010
Handle: RePEc:jgu:wpaper:1010

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Keywords: occupational health and safety; trade unions; welfare;

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• J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
• J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions

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• NEP-ALL-2010-02-13 (All new papers)
• NEP-CMP-2010-02-13 (Computational Economics)

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1. How trade unions increase welfare
   by rené böheim in Econ Tidbits on 2012-09-06 15:36:00

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Cited by:

1. Haile, Getinet Astatike & Bryson, Alex & White, Michael, 2012. "Heterogeneity in Union Status and Employee Well-Being," IZA Discussion Papers 7075, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
2. Hartmut Egger & Daniel Etzel, 2012. "Union Wage Setting and International Trade," CESifo Working Paper Series 3929, CESifo Group Munich.
   
   • Hartmut Egger & Daniel Etzel, 2012. "Union Wage Setting and International Trade," IAAEU Discussion Papers 201209, Institute of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU).
3. Donado, Alejandro & Wälde, Klaus, 2012. "Globalization, trade unions and labour standards in the North," ILO Working Papers 469448, International Labour Organization.
4. Haile, Getinet Astatike, 2012. "Union Decline in Britain: Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?," IZA Discussion Papers 6536, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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