Workplace injuries and diseases : prevention and compensation : essays in honor of Terry Thomason / Karen Roberts, John F. Burton, Jr., Matthew M. Bodah, editors.
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.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Karen Roberts -- Economic incentives and workplace safety / Terry Thomason -- Adequacy of workers' compensation cash benefits / Leslie I. Boden, Robert T. Reville, and Jeff Biddle -- Permanent partial disability benefits / John F. Burton, Jr. -- Issues in workers' compensation appeals system reform / Douglas E. Hyatt -- Performance measurement in workers' compensation systems / H. Allan Hunt -- Structure of and incentives from workers' compensation pricing / Karen Roberts -- Health care and workers' compensation / Cameron Mustard and Sandra Sinclair -- How can behavioral economics inform research on workplace injuries? / Seth A. Seabury [and others] -- Revisiting black lung : can the Feds deliver workers' compensation for occupational disease? / Peter S. Barth -- Workers' compensation in Rhode Island : reform through business/labor cooperation / Matthew Carey.
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