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

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 301 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction / Karen Roberts -- Economic incentives and workplace safety / Terry Thomason -- The 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 -- The 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
Notes 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
Notes English
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Subject Workers' compensation -- United States -- Congresses
Employers' liability insurance -- United States -- Congresses
Employers' liability -- United States -- Congresses
Industrial safety -- United States -- Costs -- Congresses
Industrial hygiene -- United States -- Costs -- Congresses
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Health & Safety.
Employers' liability
Employers' liability insurance
Industrial safety -- Costs
Workers' compensation
United States
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Festschriften
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Festschriften.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Roberts, Karen, 1949-
Burton, John F
Bodah, Matthew M. (Matthew Michael)
Thomason, Terry
ISBN 9781429454919
1429454911