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Mashaw, Jerry L. (contributor); Reno, Virginia (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book examines the economic consequences of work disabilities, and public and private interventions that might enable disabled individuals to enter the work force for the first time, remain at work, or return to work.

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Adequacy of Earnings Replacement in Workers' Compensation Programs: A Report of the Study Panel on Benefit Adequacy of the Workers' Compensation Steering Committee - NASI

Hunt, H. Allan (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The Workers’ Compensation Steering Committee of the National Academy of Social Insurance formed the Benefit Adequacy Study Panel to review the literature on benefit adequacy and to develop an approach to document what is currently known—and not known—about benefit adequacy in WC programs....

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Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements

Thomason, Terry; Schmidle, Timothy P.; John F. Burton Jr. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Thomason, Schmidle, and Burton make use of a unique data set to delve into how insurance arrangements affect several objectives of the workers' compensation (WC) program. They underscore the effects of deregulation and other changes in WC insurance pricing arrangements by performing empirical...

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Causes of Litigation in Workers' Compensation Programs

Falaris, Evangelos M.; Link, Charles R.; Staten, Michael E. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

By applying econometric analyses to case data from two states, Falaris, Link and Staten identify the economic incentives influencing the probability of litigation in workers' compensation cases, and the probability that a contested case is pursued to verdict.

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Safety Practices, Firm Culture, and Workplace Injuries

Butler, Richard J.; Park, Yong-Seung - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Butler and Park present analysis of the impact of various HRM practices on firms’ workers’ compensation costs; specifically, which practices lower firms’ workers’ compensation costs and whether the impact is the result of changes in technical efficiency or comes through induced changes...

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Benefit Adequacy in State Workers' Compensation Programs

Hunt, H. Allan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Carve-Outs in Workers' Compensation: An Analysis of the Experience in the California Construction Industry

Levine, David I.; Neuhauser, Frank W.; Reuben, Richard; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Fed up with soaring medical and indemnity costs, inadequate benefits, and pervasive fraud, employers and unions in several states during the 1990s were allowed to "carve out" their own workers' compensation systems. These innovative reforms gave the parties the right to collectively bargain...

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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena-Nozal, Ana; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

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Are women breaking the glass ceiling? A gendered analysis of the duration of sick leave in Spain

Martín-Román, Ángel L.; Moral, Alfonso; … - 2022

We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days - those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women...

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"Fear Is the Path to the Dark Side". Electoral Results and the Workplace Safety of Immigrants

D’Ambrosio, Anna; Leombruni, Roberto; Razzolini, Tiziano - 2021

Populist parties' propaganda portrays immigrants as a threat to native workers' jobs. When propaganda materializes as an electoral success, it may drive changes in natives' attitudes towards immigrants. As shown experimentally by Bursztyn et al. (2020), electoral results may signal a change in...

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