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Returning to work from injury : longitudinal evidence on employment and earnings

Crichton, Sarah (contributor); Stillman, Steven (contributor) - 2005

New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand's Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information on...

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Why are there more accidents on mondays? : economic incentives, ergonomics or externalities

Poland, Michelle; Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - 2019

Research consistently finds more workplace injuries occur on Mondays than on other weekdays. One hypothesis is that workers fraudulently claim that off-the-job weekend sprains and strains occurred at work on the Monday in order to receive workers' compensation. We test this using data from New...

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Compensation in personal injury cases : mean or median income?

Danziger, Leif; Katz, Eliakim - 2019

-whole (full) compensation and mean and median work incomes. Given that consumption uncertainty associated with compensation …

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Immigration and the reallocation of work health risks

Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Nicodemo, Catia; … - 2016

of UK-born workers towards jobs characterized by lower physical intensity and injury risk. The results also show …

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Immigration and work-related injuries : evidence from italian administrative data

Alacevich, Caterina; Nicodemo, Catia - 2019

There is growing evidence that foreign-born workers are over represented in physically demanding and dangerous jobs with relatively higher injury hazard rates. Given this pattern, do increasing inflows of foreign-born workers alleviate native workers' exposure to injuries? This paper provides...

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Injury risk, concussions, race, and pay in the NFL

Keefer, Quinn A. W.; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2023

We make two main contributions to the literature on work-related injury risk and economic outcomes in the context of … understanding injury risk and severity and their resulting economic consequences, which has been overlooked in previous sports …

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Can microinsurance help prevent child labor? : an impact evaluation from Pakistan

Landmann, Andreas; Frölich, Markus - 2013

Child labor is a common consequence of economic shocks in developing countries. We show how reducing vulnerability can affect child labor and schooling. We exploit the extension of a health and accident insurance scheme by a Pakistani microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a...

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Why do temporary workers have higher disability insurance risks than permanent workers?

Koning, Pierre; Muller, Paul; Prudon, Roger - 2022

differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the … actually masks part of the DI risk premium, whereas the causal impact of temporary work conditions on worker health is limited … fixed-term and permanent workers jointly explain more than 80% of the higher DI risk. …

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Benefit generosity and injury duration : quasi-experimental evidence from regression kinks

Hansen, Benjamin; Nguyen, Tuan; Waddell, Glen R. - 2017

In this paper, we investigate the effect of benefit generosity on claim duration and temporary benefits paid among temporary disability claims for workers' compensation. While previous studies have focused on natural experiments created by one-time large changes in minimum or maximum weekly...

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Opting out of workers' compensation : non-subscription in Texas and its effects

Jinks, Lu; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D.; … - 2019

Texas is the only state that does not mandate that employers carry workers' compensation insurance (WC) coverage. We employ a quasi-experimental design paired with a novel machine learning approach to examine the effects of switching from traditional workers' compensation to a so-called...

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