Search Results - subject:"Workers’ Compensation"

Is the Workers' Compensation System Ready for the COVID-19 [Coronavirus] Virus?

Gelman, Jon L. - 2020

It seems that every decade a new pandemic emerges on the world scene and complacency continues to exist in the workers …’ compensation arena to meet the emerging challenges of infectious disease …

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Coverage and other Expanding Benefit Changes in the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Marketplace : Academic Legal Perspective

Duff, Michael C. - 2020

This paper discusses the increased use of causation presumptions in workers' compensation cases involving firefighters … and other first responders. It also considers increasing workers' compensation coverage of post traumatic stress disorder … with respect to those same categories of workers.The paper discusses how workers' compensation coverage of certain …

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The Link between Physical and Mental Injury : A Redundant Paradigm for Determining Compensation under the Accident Compensation Act

Buckley, Tiffany - 2020

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...

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World Trade Center Tragedy Creates Complex Workers’ Compensation Issues

Gelman, Jon L. - 2020

The World Trade Center tragedy will prove the greatest challenge that has yet confronted the US workers' compensation …

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Preserving Workers’ Dignity in Workers’ Compensation Systems : An International Perspective

Lippel, Katherine - 2020

Workers' compensation systems are among the most generous disability insurance systems in North America, although they … compensation systems and the protection of the dignity of claimants. These include three underpinnings of workers' compensation … disability. It then describes a composite of characteristics favorable to equity drawn from the thirteen workers' compensation …

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Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?

Blandhol, Christine; Mogstad, Magne; Nilsson, J. Peter; … - 2020

Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way to ensure the interests and views of the workers. To investigate this...

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Worker compensation schemes and product market competition

Stadler, Manfred - 2020

We analyze product market competition between firm owners where the risk-neutral workers decide on their efforts and, thereby, on the output levels. Various worker compensation schemes are compared: a piece-rate compensation scheme as a benchmark when workers’ output performance is verifiable,...

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Modern US workers' compensation and work-related injury : no evidence of moral hazard

Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano; Benzarti, Youssef - 2020

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The impact of benefit generosity on workers' compensation claims : evidence and implications

Cabral, Marika; Dillender, Marcus - 2020

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Rising burdens of proofs and the Grand Bargain of workers' compensation laws

Yuan, Andy; Fishback, Price - 2020

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