Previous research into workers compensation risk-financing choice has considered only the alternatives of risk transfer … entities, using a sample of Texas school districts and their workers compensation coverage decisions. It finds that some …

This study estimates union effects on workers' compensation indemnity claims in 1977-92, based on individual panel data … workers' compensation recipiency … constructed from the March Current Population Survey. Union members were substantially more likely to receive workers …

Texas is one of only three states where employers can opt out of workers' compensation and the only state where a … out of workers' compensation with those choosing to maintain a workers' compensation program. Support is found for the … reported than in the workers' compensation sector …

This article examines the effect of workers' compensation fee schedules and state hospital rate-setting upon workers … sample contains about 217,000 randomly-selected workers' compensation lost workday claims from 17 states filed between 1979 … and 1988. We find that workers' compensation fee schedules and state hospital rate-setting reduce medical payments per …

purchases and precautionary saving by examining the introduction of workers' compensation. Our empirical analysis is based on … the presence of workers' compensation at least partially crowded out private accident insurance and led to a substantial … reduction in precautionary saving. The introduction of workers' compensation caused private saving to fall by approximately 25 …