This article compares chiropractic and physician treatment of work-related back pain. The costs and outcomes associated with the two different approaches to care are estimated for a sample of approximately 850 California workers who completed an episode of work-related back pain in the years...

This article presents the first estimates of labor market discrimination against men with disabilities in 1990, the year the ADA was passed. Using data from the 1990 SIPP, we compare nondisabled men to a group of men with impairments that elicit relatively little prejudice and a second group...

The contract re-negotiation process following a disabling workplace injury is partly determined by factors that are independent of health and can be influenced by the presence of a collective bargaining agreement. We postulate four paths through which unions can influence post-injury returns to...

Using data from the 1990 Survey of Income and Program Participation, this paper examines both the mobility patterns of workers with disabilities and the wage effects of job changes by observing workers' within-firm and across-firm job changes over a 20-month period. There is no difference in the...

Numerous studies have examined the economic and administrative correlates of the duration of workers= compensation claims, but none have fully controlled for the impact of worker heterogeneity on durations of work absence. Of particular interest are the ways in which worker heterogeneity affects...