법정 최대 근로가능시간 단축이 산업재해에 미친 영향

초록

Until now, long working hours in Korea has been pointed out as a factor that threatens the health of workers and causes industrial accidents. Accordingly, in 2018, the government tried to improve long working practices by adopting the 52-hour workweek system, which reduced the maximum working hours per week from 68 hours to 52 hours. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of the Maximum Working Hours Reduction Act on real working hours reduction and industrial accidents. In order to empirically analyze the causal relationship between Maximum Working Hours Reduction Act and industrial accidents, the difference-in-differences estimation method was conducted(DID). As a result of the analysis, the 52-hour workweek system reduced the working hours per week by about 2 hours on average, and this was the same even when excluding industries that belong to the guidance period of the revised Labor Standards Act. However, we found that the 52-hour workweek system did not have a significant effect on the reduction of injury rate or death rate.

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