Industrial Accidents and Occupational Diseases : Some Empirical Findings for the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany & Great Britain

This paper has been composed within the framework of the ‘Shifts in Governance’ project, financed by the Netherlands Association for Scientific Research (NWO). It contains an impression of first empirical data that was collected on industrial accidents and occupational diseases in four European countries. It also addresses questions such as: what exactly are the sources of compensation for work injury in each of these countries? And how much do these sources of compensation pay out in cases of work injury?