Workplace Litigiousness and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Workers’ Compensation Reform
研究阿根廷工伤保险改革，该改革要求工伤后先经政府医疗委员会调解，发现改革大幅减少诉讼、未影响事故报告，且高暴露行业就业年增超5%，对平均收入和活跃企业数无影响。
We study a reform to the workers’ compensation system in Argentina that, motivated by a large increase in workplace litigiousness, mandates that workers go through a mediating government medical commission after a workplace accident to determine the degree of disability, whether the injury happened in the workplace, and the corresponding compensation before additional legal actions can be taken. Leveraging the staggered implementation of the reform across provinces, we find that the reform substantially reduced workplace lawsuits with no effects on reported accidents. Employment increased in highly exposed industries by more than 5 percent a year after the reform, with no effects on average earnings or the number of active firms.