更高的处罚、更宽泛的定义和国家标准：统一后的澳大利亚工作场所健康与安全法是否减少了工人赔偿金的领取？

IF 2.4 3区管理学 Q2 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR

Industrial Relations Pub Date : 2024-01-04 DOI:10.1111/irel.12357

Anam Bilgrami, Henry Cutler, Kompal Sinha

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2012 年至 2013 年期间，澳大利亚政策进行了一次准实验，除两个辖区外，其他所有辖区的工作场所健康与安全法律都进行了统一。这项改革扩大了注意义务的定义，引入了刑事执法，并加大了处罚力度。通过堆叠差分估算，我们未能发现改革后工人赔偿概率的整体下降。然而，我们发现高风险行业工人和单一地点雇主工人的工伤赔偿概率大幅降低。我们的结论是，如果没有降低复杂性或考虑可用的监察资源，如果司法管辖区有实施的灵活性，更一致的法律可能不会减少总体索赔和工伤。

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Higher penalties, broader definitions, and national standards: Did harmonized Australian workplace health and safety laws reduce workers' compensation receipt?

A quasi-experiment was created in Australian policy between 2012 and 2013 when workplace health and safety laws were harmonized in all but two jurisdictions. This reform expanded definitions for duty of care, introduced criminal enforcement, and increased penalties. Using stacked difference-in-difference estimation, we fail to find overall reduced workers' compensation probability over the post-reform period. However, we find significantly reduced workers' compensation probabilities for high-risk industry workers and workers in single-location employers. We conclude that more consistent laws may not reduce overall claims and injury if they do not reduce complexity or consider available inspectorate resources, and if jurisdictions have implementation flexibility.

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Industrial Relations INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS & LABOR-

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4.40

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期刊介绍： Corporate restructuring and downsizing, the changing employment relationship in union and nonunion settings, high performance work systems, the demographics of the workplace, and the impact of globalization on national labor markets - these are just some of the major issues covered in Industrial Relations. The journal offers an invaluable international perspective on economic, sociological, psychological, political, historical, and legal developments in labor and employment. It is the only journal in its field with this multidisciplinary focus on the implications of change for business, government and workers.