Search Results - subject:"workers€™ compensation"

The Impact of Shift Work on the Risk and Severity of Injuries for Hospital Employees: An Analysis Using Oregon Workers' Compensation Data

Horwitz, Irwin B.; McCall, Brian - Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies, Carlson …

study used Oregon workers' compensation data from 1990-1997 to examine the differences in hospital employee claims (n = 7 …

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The Role of Temporary Agency Employment in Tight Labor Markets

Houseman, Susan N.; Kalleberg, Arne L.; Erickcek, George A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Discussion [of State Regulatory Policy and Economic Development by Robert Tannenwald]

Hunt, H. Allan - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Safety Practices, Firm Culture, and Workplace Injuries

Butler, Richard J.; Park, Yong-Seung - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Butler and Park present analysis of the impact of various HRM practices on firms’ workers’ compensation costs …; specifically, which practices lower firms’ workers’ compensation costs and whether the impact is the result of changes in technical …

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Carve-Outs in Workers' Compensation: An Analysis of the Experience in the California Construction Industry

Levine, David I.; Neuhauser, Frank W.; Reuben, Richard; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

several states during the 1990s were allowed to "carve out" their own workers' compensation systems. These innovative reforms …' compensation systems. They also provide insights into how any employer might want to alter their handling of workers' compensation … offer lessons important for any groups considering carve-outs as well as for operators of state statutory workers …

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Labor Standards in the United States and Canada

Block, Richard N.; Roberts, Karen; Clarke, R. Oliver - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Block, Roberts, and Clarke offer a method for comparing labor standards across political jurisdictions. They then apply this method to the United States and Canada, an exercise that allows them to settle the long-running dispute over whether or not Canada has higher standards than the U.S., and...

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Ensuring Health and Income Security for an Aging Workforce

Budetti, Peter P. (contributor); … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This volume explores the implications of an aging workforce for a number of social programs in the coming decades, and point to the critical policy issues we must face when growing numbers of older workers begin to strain the capacity of those programs.

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Workplace Injuries and Diseaases: Prevention and Compensation - Essays in Honor of Terry Thomason

Roberts, Karen (contributor); John F. Burton Jr. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

The editors present a set of essays from a group of leading scholars that provides a detailed overview of what is known about the disability insurance system while highlighting areas of the system that beg for greater understanding.

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Statistical basis at experience under disability sickness and accident insurance

Albert, Faye - In: Transactions of the International Congress of Actuaries 21 (1980) 3, pp. 1-13

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Workers' compensation and work-related illnesses and diseases

Barth, Peter S.; Hunt, H. Allan - 1980

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