Article ID: CBB002624449

Unions and compensating wage differentials for workplace accident risk: the English and Welsh railway industry, 1902–12 (2021)

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The effect of unions on workers’ wage premiums for accepting on-the-job accident risk is a prominent subset of compensating differentials research. This article contributes to the literature by using a newly-constructed balanced panel of railwaymen working in the traffic departments of three prominent Edwardian railway companies with operations in England and Wales. It avoids previous issues of endogeneity by controlling for a number of variables correlated with the risk rates, notably individual fixed effects. The results show that the largest railway union of the time, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, was able to transform growing union density into power that increased wage premiums for fatal accident risk, although railwaymen's wages did not compensate them for non-fatal accident risk. This article also considers how this relationship differed by varying levels of company-specific human capital as measured by tenure. It finds a non-linear relationship for both risk rates across the tenure cohorts.

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Authors & Contributors
Tai, Sara J.
Hatton, Timothy J.
Moritz Müller
Jeremy Lowe
Fusaro, Maria
Inwood, Kris
Concepts
Public health
Labor and laborers
Health policy
Social determinants of health
Risk
Police; criminal justice departments
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Early modern
21st century
20th century, late
Places
England
Wales
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland
Italy
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases
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