If OSHA is so bad, why is compliance so good?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Weil, D
• 刊物名称: RAND JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0741-6261
• DOI: 10.2307/2555847
• 发表日期: 1996
• 页码: 618-640
• 关键词: occupational-safety; health regulation; IMPACT; ENFORCEMENT; inspections; unions; MODEL

摘要

Since its inception twenty-five years ago, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been the subject of an intense public debate on its effectiveness, This article analyzes the determinants of establishment-level compliance with specific safety and health standards as a means of assessing the agency's effectiveness, The empirical results suggest that OSHA has had large impacts on business compliance behavior, despite its low regulatory profile. These results indicate that government regulatory agencies can substantially change private-sector behavior, evert given limited regulatory resources.