Foreign-born workers: trends in fatal occupational injuries, 1996-2001.
Workplace fatalities among foreign-born workers reflect the large influx of those workers into the U.S. workforce and their employment in occupations and industries with inherently higher risks of fatal injury. In 2001, the fatality rate for all U.S. workers decreased to a series low of 4.3 per 100,...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 127; no. 6; pp. 42 - 54 |
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US Department of Labor
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