Permanent Disability Benefits in Workers' Compensation

Authors

Monroe Berkowitz, National Bureau of Economic Research
John F. Burton, Cornell University

Publication Date

1-1-1987

DOI

10.17848/9780880995894

Abstract

Berkowitz and Burton provide a detailed examination of the adequacy and equity of permanent partial disability benefits, and the efficiency of the system delivering those benefits. A ten-state study is presented that examines states' criteria for awarding scheduled and nonscheduled benefits. Three of those states are then used for a wage-loss study illustrating the relationship among workers' disability ratings, the workers' WC benefits, and losses of earnings caused by work-related injuries.

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Contents

Part I. Introduction to Permanent Partial Disability and Workers' Compensation

1. Disability Among the Working-Age Population: A Conceptual Framework

2. The Objectives of Workers' Compensation

Part II. The Ten-State Study of Workers' Compensation Procedures and Standards

3. An Introduction to the Ten-State Study

4. Procedures for Permanent Partial Benefits

5. Scheduled Benefits

6. Nonscheduled Benefits in Impairment (Category I) States

7. Nonscheduled Benefits in Loss of Wage-Earning Capacity (Category II) States

8. Nonscheduled Benefits in Wage-Loss (Category III) States

9. The Transformation of Florida to a Wage-Loss State

Part III. The Wage-Loss Study

10. The Wage-Loss Study of California, Florida, and Wisconsin

Part IV. Evaluation and Possible Reforms

11. Evaluation of Permanent Disability Benefits

12. Possible Reforms of Permanent Partial Disability Benefits

ISBN

9780880990509 (pbk.) ; 9780880995894 (ebook)

Subject Areas

UNEMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, and INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAMS; Workers compensation and disability; Benefits and financing; Disability