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Climate change impacts on labor force and economy Location: Auditorium B: Frøystein Gjesdal Session Chair: Alessandro Taberna, European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change | |
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Heat and work-related injuries: How temperature measurements affect the outcomes 1: University of Ferrara and GLO; 2: University of Roma Tre; 3: University of Ferrara and SEEDS; 4: University of Roma Tre Climate change is producing significant transformations in the labour market, in intensifying inequalities due to its heterogeneous effects. This paper proposes an empirical analysis for Italy on the causal relationship between high temperatures and work-related injuries, at the provincial and daily levels, for the period 2014-2022, by exploiting within-country local variation. Our analysis is the first to compare the estimated effects of heat on injuries at the workplace using, besides air temperature, two other meteorological indicators which are comprehensive human heat stress indexes not applied yet in economics: the wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) and the uni- versal thermal climate index (UTCI). Our findings confirm that higher temperatures significantly increase the risk of work-related injuries, with coefficients rising across temperature thresholds and varying by indicator. Heterogeneity analyses reveal that vulnerability differs by gender, age, nationality, economic sector, and geographical area. The study highlights the importance of employing advanced climatic metrics and stratified analyses to better understand the impact of heat stress on occupational health, especially in regions like Italy that are highly susceptible to global warming. | |