[Monitoring the trend of occupational injuries: comparison between different indicators].

Objectives: to compare three injuries indicators to establish which are less affected by underreporting and therefore best suited for the monitoring of the occupational injuries time trend during economic crisis.

Design: open cohort.

Setting And Participants: a national sample of employees in the private sector, blue collars, males aged 15-64 years, extracted from the Work History Italian Panel-Healt archive, which combines data about firms and employee from the National Social Security Institute (Inps) and occupational injuries data from the Italian National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (Inail).

Differences in work injury risk between immigrants and natives: changes since the economic recession in Italy.

Background: It is known that occupational injury rates are higher for immigrant than for native workers, however the effects of the economic cycles on these differences has not been assessed to date. The aim of the paper is to test if the crisis has the same mechanism of selection in the two groups by comparing injury rates in 2005 (before the crisis) and in 2010 (after the crisis).

Methods: The Work History Italian Panel-Salute integrated database was interrogated to identify employment contracts in the metalworking and construction industries for the years 2005 and 2010 and the occupational injuries.

[The health of foreign workers: an Italian and international priority.].

About 5 million migrants are resident in Italy. Migrant workers are mainly employed in manual, unqualified jobs that Italians tend not to perform anymore. Compared to Italians, they tend to be more hired by precarious contracts.

Migrant workers in Italy: an analysis of injury risk taking into account occupational characteristics and job tenure.

Background: Migrants resident in Italy exceeded 5 million in 2015, representing 8.2% of the resident population. The study of the mechanisms that explain the differential health of migrant workers (as a whole and for specific nationalities) has been identified as a priority for research.

Occupational injuries in times of labour market flexibility: the different stories of employment-secure and precarious workers.

Background: The relationship between labour market flexibility, job insecurity and occupational injuries is not univocal. The literature generally focuses on the temporary character of work arrangements rather than on the precarity of careers. The aim of this paper is to identify, without defining a priori what a precarious career is, the most common professional profiles of young people who entered the labour market in the 2000s and to correlate them with occupational injury risks.

[Occupational injury risk in immigrant workers in Italy: differences in work characteristics and age].

Objectives: to describe occupational injury risk, comparing regular foreign workers with Italians, by main work characteristics and age.

Design: analysis of incidence and risk of total and severe occupational injury by Country of birth, stratified by economic activity, skill level, geographical area of work, firm size and age.

Setting And Participants: sample of 7% of workers registered in the Italian National Institute of Social Insurance (INPS) database.

Job tenure and work injuries: a multivariate analysis of the relation with previous experience and differences by age.

Background: One of the consequences of the increasing flexibility in contemporary labour markets is that individuals change jobs more frequently than in the past. Indeed, in many cases, through collecting a lot of contracts, individuals work in the same economic sector or even in the same company, doing the same job in the same way as existing colleagues. A very long literature has established that newly hired workers--whatever the contract type--are more likely to be injured than those with longer job tenures.

[Temporary employment and health: a multivariate analysis of occupational injury risk by job tenure].

Objective: To study the relationship between job tenure and injury risk, controlling for individual factors and company characteristics.

Design: Analysis of incidence and injury risk by job tenure, controlling for gender, age, nationality, economic activity, firm size.

Setting: Sample of 7% of Italian workers registered in the INPS (National Institute of Social Insurance) database.

A new Italian surveillance system for occupational injuries: characteristics and initial results.

Background: Occupational injuries research and surveillance is important for prevention and public health protection. A new occupational surveillance system based on linkage of work histories calculated from the Italian National Social Security Institute (INPS) and occupational injuries provided by the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Injuries (INAIL) was created and assessed.

Methods: It has been extracted a 1% sample of individuals from INPS.