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W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Workplace safety

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Service Delivery Core Review: A Reappraisal, H. Allan Hunt May 2010

Service Delivery Core Review: A Reappraisal, H. Allan Hunt

Reports

No abstract provided.


Safety Practices, Firm Culture, And Workplace Injuries, Richard J. Butler, Yong-Seung Park Aug 2005

Safety Practices, Firm Culture, And Workplace Injuries, Richard J. Butler, Yong-Seung Park

Upjohn Press

The authors 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 efficiency or comes through induced changes in workers’ behavior.


Why Not The Best? Service Delivery Core Review Report, H. Allan Hunt Mar 2002

Why Not The Best? Service Delivery Core Review Report, H. Allan Hunt

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


Workers' Compensation Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, John F. Burton Apr 2001

Workers' Compensation Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, John F. Burton

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, And Safety Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, John F. Burton Jan 2001

Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, And Safety Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, John F. Burton

Upjohn Press

Thomason, Schmidle, and Burton make use of a unique data set to delve into how insurance arrangements affect several objectives of the workers' compensation (WC) program. They underscore the effects of deregulation and other changes in WC insurance pricing arrangements by performing empirical analyses that use state-specific cost, benefit, and injury data from 48 states for 1975-1995. This allows them to address the interactive relationships among the four objectives of WC systems adequacy of benefits, affordability of WC insurance, efficiency in the benefits delivery system, and prevention of workplace injuries and diseases and how various public policies adopted by states …


The Workers' Compensation System Of British Columbia: Still In Transition, H. Allan Hunt, Peter S. Barth, Michael J. Leahy, Workers' Compensation Board Of British Columbia Feb 1996

The Workers' Compensation System Of British Columbia: Still In Transition, H. Allan Hunt, Peter S. Barth, Michael J. Leahy, Workers' Compensation Board Of British Columbia

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


New Hope For Workers' Compensation Programs, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck Oct 1994

New Hope For Workers' Compensation Programs, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Tragedy Of Black Lung: Federal Compensation For Occupational Disease, Peter S. Barth Jan 1987

The Tragedy Of Black Lung: Federal Compensation For Occupational Disease, Peter S. Barth

Upjohn Press

This study details the development of the federal government's Black Lung program and evaluates its policy components.