TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ichniowski,Casey
TI  - Fuzzy Frontiers of Production:  Evidence of Persistent Inefficiency in Safety Expenditures
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1366
PY  - 1984
Y2  - June 1984
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1366
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1366.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Casey Ichniowski
Graduate School of Business
3022 Broadway Street, 713 Uris Hall
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212/854-4433
Fax: 212/316-9355
E-Mail: bei1@columbia.edu
AB  - This study documents a strong inverse relationship between accident rates and production in a sample of eleven firms in the same narrowly defined industry classification. Given the detailed set of input controls and controls for plant-specific and time-specific factors used in the analysis, the study argues that a theoretical framework that describes firms as operating on well-defined production frontiers is not adequate for providing an entirely accurate interpretation of the basic empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity relationship.
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