Workplace injuries and diseases
Workplace injuries and diseases prevention and compensation : essays in honor of Terry Thomason / [electronic resource] :
Karen Roberts, John F. Burton, Jr., Matthew M. Bodah, editors.
- Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2005.
- xv, 301 p. : ill.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Economic incentives and workplace safety / The adequacy of workers' compensation cash benefits / Permanent partial disability benefits / Issues in workers' compensation appeals system reform / Performance measurement in workers' compensation systems / The structure of and incentives from workers' compensation pricing / Health care and workers' compensation / How can behavioral economics inform research on workplace injuries? / Revisiting black lung : can the Feds deliver workers' compensation for occupational disease? / Workers' compensation in Rhode Island : reform through business/labor cooperation / Karen Roberts -- Terry Thomason -- Leslie I. Boden, Robert T. Reville, and Jeff Biddle -- John F. Burton, Jr. -- Douglas E. Hyatt -- H. Allan Hunt -- Karen Roberts -- Cameron Mustard and Sandra Sinclair -- Seth A. Seabury ... [et al.] -- Peter S. Barth -- Matthew Carey.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Workers' compensation--United States--Congresses.
Employers' liability insurance--United States--Congresses.
Employers' liability--United States--Congresses.
Industrial safety--Costs--United States--Congresses.
Industrial hygiene--Costs--United States--Congresses.
Electronic books.
HD7103.65.U6 / W685 2005eb
363.11/6/0973
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Economic incentives and workplace safety / The adequacy of workers' compensation cash benefits / Permanent partial disability benefits / Issues in workers' compensation appeals system reform / Performance measurement in workers' compensation systems / The structure of and incentives from workers' compensation pricing / Health care and workers' compensation / How can behavioral economics inform research on workplace injuries? / Revisiting black lung : can the Feds deliver workers' compensation for occupational disease? / Workers' compensation in Rhode Island : reform through business/labor cooperation / Karen Roberts -- Terry Thomason -- Leslie I. Boden, Robert T. Reville, and Jeff Biddle -- John F. Burton, Jr. -- Douglas E. Hyatt -- H. Allan Hunt -- Karen Roberts -- Cameron Mustard and Sandra Sinclair -- Seth A. Seabury ... [et al.] -- Peter S. Barth -- Matthew Carey.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Workers' compensation--United States--Congresses.
Employers' liability insurance--United States--Congresses.
Employers' liability--United States--Congresses.
Industrial safety--Costs--United States--Congresses.
Industrial hygiene--Costs--United States--Congresses.
Electronic books.
HD7103.65.U6 / W685 2005eb
363.11/6/0973