There is currently an inequitable gap in compensation under the Accident Compensation Act, whereby claimants who suffer from a mental injury after an accident but not a physical injury cannot get compensation. The purpose of this paper is to consider this gap in compensation by analysing a...

Despite the adoption of no-fault Workers' Compensation legislation in most states, there is substantial litigation over the issue of employer liability for injury claims. We develop a sequential asymmetric information model of liability disputes and estimate the model using data on injury claims...

This paper provides an analysis and summary of the effects of the Workers' Compensation (WC) system on wages and work injury experience. It stresses how lessons learned from other forms of social insurance can be applied to research on WC. I begin with a brief overview of the characteristics of...