estimating effects on the probability of receiving workers compensation in the past year. The introduction of the reform in all … survey, accounting for a diverse range of individuallevel covariates associated with workers compensation claiming. We find … harmonisation reduced the probability of receiving workers compensation in treated states by 0.9 percentage points (p=0.047). This …

benefit in a difference-in-differences research design to identify the impact of workers’ compensation wage replacement …

two questions. First, we examine evidence on whether workers who suffer permanently disabling injuries covered by workers …’ compensation (WC) subsequently end up on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Second, under some conditions, SSDI benefits …

Nearly every state has amended workers’ compensation laws in the last two decades and the national averages of cash and … back on workers’ compensation benefits. We show that measures of the statutory benefits have been rising over time, a trend …

years ago, the same Act mandated an investigation of the American workers’ compensation system, which consists of a loose … network of independent state workers’ compensation systems. The National Commission created by the Act to carry out the … investigation issued a report of its findings in 1972 and concluded that American workers’ compensation was neither fair nor …

. Contemporaries hailed workers' compensation as a boon to workers because it raised the amount of post-accident compensation paid to …

We exploit recent decades of US state-level reforms to the generosity of workers’ compensation programs to estimate the … cost of workers’ compensation benefits is negligible …