Occupational disorders: Interactions between gender and migrant status among individuals engaged in paid work in Sweden

Social sciences & humanities open Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.101593

Hans Ekbrand, Lotta Dellve

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Abstract

Background

Ensuring decent and safe working conditions, minimizing the risks of serious occupational injuries, and upholding nondiscriminatory rights to compensation for such disorders are central policy objectives for sustainable development. Workers that nevertheless suffer from occupational disorders should be entitled to compensation. This article examines if this de jure entitlement is enforced in a non-discriminatory way by comparing how workers’ gender and migrant status is correlated with their probability of receiving compensation.

Aim

The aim is to compare the approval rate of compensation for serious occupational disorders, considering workers’ gender and migration status (country of birth), while controlling for the type of diagnosis (and consequently, the type of injury).

Method

We analyzed all applications for compensation related to serious occupational disorders from 2010 to 2018, by applying Bayesian logistic regression on a data set of 20088 applicants and a total of 414 combinations of sex (2), region of birth (3), and diagnoses (69) (2 × 3 × 69 = 414).

Results

The probability of receiving compensation was significantly influenced by both gender and region of birth, even after accounting for the type of diagnosis. In general, men had a higher chance of receiving compensation than women from the same region. Additionally, individuals from Nordic countries had a greater likelihood of compensation compared to those from the EU, who, in turn, had a higher chance than individuals from the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region. However, women from the EU did not fare better than women from the MENA region in terms of compensation.

Conclusions

Occupational disorders result in significant suffering and loss at individual, community, societal, and organizational levels, making them a global sustainability challenge. To address the issue of inequitable access to compensation, the Swedish compensation authority should thoroughly investigate the systematic advantage enjoyed by Nordic men.

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职业障碍：瑞典从事有偿工作的个人中性别与移民身份之间的相互作用

确保体面和安全的工作条件，最大限度地减少严重职业伤害的风险，并维护对这类疾病的非歧视赔偿权利，是可持续发展的核心政策目标。患有职业病的劳动者应当有权获得赔偿。本文通过比较工人的性别和移民身份与他们获得赔偿的可能性之间的关系，考察这种法律上的权利是否以非歧视性的方式得到执行。目的：考虑到工人的性别和移民身份（出生国），同时控制诊断类型（从而控制伤害类型），目的是比较严重职业病的赔偿批准率。方法采用贝叶斯逻辑回归方法，对2010 - 2018年所有与严重职业病相关的赔偿申请数据集进行分析，该数据集共有20088名申请人，性别(2)、出生地区(3)、诊断（69）共414种组合（2 × 3 × 69 = 414）。结果即使在考虑了诊断类型后，获得补偿的概率也受到性别和出生地区的显著影响。总的来说，同一地区的男性比女性获得补偿的机会更高。此外，与来自欧盟的人相比，来自北欧国家的人获得补偿的可能性更大，而来自欧盟的人获得补偿的可能性又高于来自中东/北非地区的人。然而，在薪酬方面，来自欧盟的女性并不比来自中东和北非地区的女性更好。结论职业障碍在个人、社区、社会和组织层面造成了巨大的痛苦和损失，使其成为全球可持续发展的挑战。为了解决不公平获得补偿的问题，瑞典赔偿当局应彻底调查北欧男子享有的系统优势。

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