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Workplace Injuries and Diseases

Prevention and Compensation

Essays in Honor of Terry Thomason

Karen Roberts, Michigan State University
John F. Burton Jr., Rutgers University
Matthew M. Bodah, University of Rhode Island, Editors

Introductory chapter | Table of Contents

A "Noteworthy Book" for 2005
as chosen by Princeton University Industrial Relations Section's Selected References.

“To the noneconomist workplace injuries and illnesses are regarded as an accident and an unfortunate side effect of human activity. An economist, however, views them as outcomes of straightforward cost and benefit decisions made by workers and employers in the context of a regulated labour market. [This book] is a valuable, accessible and analytical contribution to what we know about these decisions and how we should think about workplace health and safety policy.”

-Industrial Relations Journal

Each year, approximately one of every 20 full-time-equivalent workers in the United States gets injured while at work. This statistic highlights the need for an efficient yet adequate and equitable disability insurance (workers’ compensation) system to help those workers during their recoveries. Much has been learned about how to balance the priorities for this type of social insurance, but gaps in our knowledge remain.

Editors Karen Roberts, John F. Burton Jr., and Matthew M. Bodah 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. Included are:

  • Introduction, Karen Roberts
  • Economic Incentives and Workplace Safety, Terry Thomason
  • The Adequacy of Workers’ Compensation Cash Benefits, Leslie I. Boden, Robert T. Reville, and Jeff Biddle
  • Permanent Partial Disability Benefits, John F. Burton Jr.
  • Issues in Workers’ Compensation Appeals System Reform, Douglas E. Hyatt
  • Performance Measurement in Workers’ Compensation Systems, H. Allan Hunt
  • The Structure of and Incentives from Workers’ Compensation Pricing, Karen Roberts
  • Health Care and Workers’ Compensation, Cameron Mustard and Sandra Sinclair
  • How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Research on Workplace Injuries?, Seth A. Seabury, Robert T. Reville, Hilary J. Rhodes, and Leslie I. Boden
  • Revisiting Black Lung: Can the Feds Deliver Workers’ Compensation for Occupational Disease?, Peter S. Barth
  • Workers’ Compensation in Rhode Island: Reform through Business/Labor Cooperation, Matthew Carey
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  • Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications, Kalman Rupp and David C. Stapleton, Editors
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    • 301 pp. 2005.
    $20 paper ISBN 0-88099-324-3 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-324-1
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