H. Allan Hunt, Senior Economist  
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Curriculum Vitae

Working papers

Specializing in issues relating to the design and performance of disability compensation systems and incentives for disability prevention, Dr. Hunt recently served as a subject matter expert for Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA) Program Effectiveness Study, conducted for the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of Labor, by ICF Consulting, under GSA Contract Schedule GS-23F 8182H. As a result, he was invited to testify before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections in May 2004.

He is also Vice-Chair of the Workers' Compensation Steering Committee of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI). As chair of a NASI subcommittee researching the adequacy of wage-replacement benefits in workers' compensation programs in the United States, Dr. Hunt is the editor and a major contributor to the NASI book, Adequacy of Earnings Replacement in Workers' Compensation Programs, published by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in 2004.

Dr. Hunt performed a "core review" of the quality of service delivery by the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia in 2002. This study was part of a government wide review of all of the core services and systems of administrative justice in the Province. In the late '90s, he led an international team of workers' compensation experts in a series of studies of the Victorian WorkCover Authority in Australia.

Recent publications include

  • "The Adequacy and Equity of WC Benefits" in The Future of Workers' Compensation: Opportunities and Challenges, Richard A. Victor, ed. (Cambridge, MA: Workers Compensation Research Institute, 2004).
  • Why Not the Best? Service Delivery Core Review Report, Ministry of Skills Development and Labour, Government of British Columbia, March 2002.
  • "Understanding the New Policy Environment." In 22nd Mary E. Switzer Memorial Seminar: Emerging Workforce Issues: W.I.A., Ticket to Work, and Partnerships, L. Robert McConnell, ed. (Alexandria, VA: National Rehabilitation Association, 2001).
  • "Measuring the Impact of Organizational Behaviors on Work Disability Prevention and Management" with Benjamin C. Amick, Rochelle V. Habeck, Anne H. Fossel, Alice Chapin, Robert B. Keller, and Jeffrey N. Katz in Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 10(1): 21-38, March 2000.
  • Workers’ Compensation in Victoria: The Third Way, with Peter S. Barth, Alan Clayton, Ralph W. McGinn, Robert W. Klein, and Terrance J. Bogyo, Victorian WorkCover Authority, Melbourne, Australia, December 1999.
Dr. Hunt joined the Institute as a senior economist in 1978, became manager of research in 1982, and served as assistant executive director from 1989 to 2007. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1974.

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