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...

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 provide the first-ever estimates of wage discrimination against workers with sensory (hearing, speech, vision) disabilities. Workers with sensory disabilities have lower probabilities of employment and lower wages, on average, than nondisabled workers. Their poor labor market outcomes are...

Becker's model of discrimination is extended to the case where men exhibit distastes for working under female managers. The distribution of women in the resulting occupational hierarchy depends on the number of women in lower occupations, the wages of male workers in lower occupations, and male...