Title

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

Year

2005

Abstract

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.

Contents

  1. Introduction / Karen Roberts
  2. Economic Incentives and Workplace Safety / Terry Thomason
  3. The Adequacy of Workers' Compensation Cash Benefits / Leslie I. Boden, Robert T. Reville, and Jeff Biddle
  4. Permanent Partial Disability Benefits / John F. Burton, Jr.
  5. Issues in Workers' Compensation Appeals System Reform / Douglas E. Hyatt
  6. Performance Measurement in Workers' Compensation Systems / H. Allan Hunt
  7. The Structure of and Incentives from Workers' Compensation Pricing / Karen Roberts
  8. Health Care and Workers' Compensation / Cameron Mustard and Sandra Sinclair
  9. How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Research on Workplace Injuries? / Seth A. Seabury, Robert T. Reville, Hilary J. Rhodes, and Leslie I. Boden
  10. Revisiting Black Lung: Can the Feds Deliver Workers' Compensation for Occupational Disease? / Peter S. Barth
  11. Workers' Compensation in Rhode Island: Reform through Business/Labor Cooperation / Matthew Carey

Note

Papers from a conference entitled "Workers' Compensation: Current and Emerging Issues" held at the University of Rhode Island on March 27, 2004 to honor the former director of URI's Schmidt Labor Research Center

ISBN

9780880993241 (pbk.)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and POVERTY; Workers compensation and disability; Benefits and financing; Disability; Occupational health and safety