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Title Workplace injuries and diseases : prevention and compensation : essays in honor of Terry Thomason / Karen Roberts, John F. Burton, Jr., Matthew M. Bodah, editors.

Publication Info. Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 301 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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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Subject Workers' compensation -- United States -- Congresses.
Workers' compensation.
United States.
Employers' liability insurance -- United States -- Congresses.
Employers' liability insurance.
Employers' liability -- United States -- Congresses.
Employers' liability.
Industrial safety -- United States -- Costs -- Congresses.
Industrial safety.
Industrial hygiene -- United States -- Costs -- Congresses.
Industrial hygiene.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Roberts, Karen, 1949-
Burton, John F.
Bodah, Matthew M. (Matthew Michael)
Thomason, Terry.
Other Form: Print version: Workplace injuries and diseases. Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2005 (DLC) 2005009746
ISBN 9781429454919 (electronic book)
1429454911 (electronic book)
0880993243 (paperback ; alkaline paper)