Studies of the effectiveness of medical and vocational rehabilitation and the disincentive effects of workers' compensation benefits frequently assume that a return to work signals the end of the limiting effects of injuries. This study is the first to test that assumption empirically. The...

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...

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...

We extend the research on postinjury employment by estimating productivity losses for workers with permanent partial disabilities (PPDs) in the first three years after injury. Our method distinguishes between productivity losses attributed to spells of work absence versus reduced earnings during...

We estimate models of workers compensation claim duration for a sample of Canadian workers with serious low-back injuries. The models extend recent duration research by allowing worker characteristics to affect duration dependence through the nonlocation parameters of the duration distribution....