Monitoring health in Sweden: On the rationale for working environment regulations
研究了政府干预工作环境对健康的影响，发现税收和社会保险制度下，市场力量可能导致工伤预防投资过多或不足，对政策制定者有参考价值。
The quality of the working environment affects the health status of a population. In the absence of government intervention this quality would be determined by market forces, but the market outcome is generally not accepted. Instead public policy attempts to carefully monitor the level of occupational hazards, which are invariably subject to regulation in industrialized countries. However, this study demonstrates that the welfare implications of this monitoring of health are not self-evident. In the presence of a tax on labour and, for example, a tax-financed social insurance system, it is shown that market forces may lead either to excessive or to sub-optimal investments in injury prevention. Both private and (local) public safety goods are considered.