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


Workplace Injuries And Diseases: Prevention And Compensation - Essays In Honor Of Terry Thomason, Karen Roberts Editor, John F. Burton Editor, Matthew M. Bodah Editor Aug 2005

Workplace Injuries And Diseases: Prevention And Compensation - Essays In Honor Of Terry Thomason, Karen Roberts Editor, John F. Burton Editor, Matthew M. Bodah Editor

Upjohn Press

This book presents 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.


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 Third Way: Prevention And Compensation Of Work Injury In Victoria, Australia, Peter S. Barth, H. Allan Hunt, Alan Clayton, Ralph W. Mcginn, Robert W. Klein, Terrance J. Bogyo Feb 2000

The Third Way: Prevention And Compensation Of Work Injury In Victoria, Australia, Peter S. Barth, H. Allan Hunt, Alan Clayton, Ralph W. Mcginn, Robert W. Klein, Terrance J. Bogyo

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


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.


Disability Prevention Among Michigan Employers, 1988-1993, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck, Brett Vantol, Susan M. Scully Sep 1993

Disability Prevention Among Michigan Employers, 1988-1993, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck, Brett Vantol, Susan M. Scully

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.


The Michigan Disability Prevention Study: Research Highlights, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck Apr 1993

The Michigan Disability Prevention Study: Research Highlights, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This 3-year collaborative research project was designed to provide empirical evidence to substantiate the impact of various employer policies and practices on the prevention and management of workplace disability. It studied a random sample of 220 Michigan establishments with more than 100 employees from seven different industries who responded to a mail survey in the first half of 1991. The study correlates differences in employer-reported levels of achievement on policy and practice dimensions with performance on disability outcome measures, while controlling for a set of establishment characteristics in a multivariate regression analysis.