Foreign-born workers: trends in fatal occupational injuries, 1996-2001
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Katherine Loh is formerly an economist in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions; and Scott Richardson is a program manager in the same office, Bureau of Labor Statistics. E-mail: Richardson.Scott@ bls.gov. 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 Foreign-born workers: trends in fatal occupational injuries, 1996–2001
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