This paper explores the effect of workers' compensation benefits on the duration of workers' compensation claims from Ontario, Canada. The models estimated in this paper also investigate the robustness of the results to a nonparametric specification of the unobserved heterogeneity distribution....

The recurrence of workers' compensation injuries is studied using data from the unemployment histories of permanently disabled workers from Ontario, Canada. Estimates are obtained with a zero inflated Poisson regression model and it is found that employer accommodations can reduce the number of...