Workers' compensation insurance provides cash payments and medical benefits to workers who incur a work-related injury … or illness. Many features of the workers' compensation program parallel features of proposed mandated employer …-paid health insurance plans. This paper empirically examines the incidence of the workers' compensation program to infer the …

This paper examines the effect of workers' compensation on the time until an injured worker returns to work. Two large …

maximum workers' compensation benefit on the duration of workplace injuries in Minnesota. As a result of legislation, workers …

workers to risky jobs, premiums for workers' compensation insurance, government fines for safety violations, and injury … government, focusing on the enactment and enforcement of safety and health standards and the safety incentives of workers …' compensation insurance systems. We find broad consensus in the empirical literature that workers and firms respond to economic …