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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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This paper provides an analysis and summary of the effects of the Workers' Compensation (WC) system on wages and work …
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understanding the effects of these types of arrangements on employment and earnings risk for workers and the potential for existing … social insurance programs to address this risk. We study employment and earnings risk in the context of workplace injuries … employment and earnings risk posed by workplace injuries, comparing labor market outcomes after injury between temporary and …
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understanding the effects of these types of arrangements on employment and earnings risk for workers and the potential for existing … social insurance programs to address this risk. We study employment and earnings risk in the context of workplace injuries … employment and earnings risk posed by workplace injuries, comparing labor market outcomes after injury between temporary and …
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work accidents as a risk variable, evidence that firms do pay risk premiums for hazardous work are found even though other …
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risk and wages. We test the model's predictions using obesity as a proxy for worker disinvestments in human capital and … between individual accident risk and wages, but only in high risk occupations. The latter relationship may downward bias or …In this paper, we develop a theoretical model of worker investment in safety. Standard theory assumes that injury risk …
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