TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ehrenberg,Ronald G.
TI  - Workers' Compensation, Wages, and the Risk of Injury
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1538
PY  - 1989
Y2  - October 1989
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1538
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1538.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
271 Ives Hall East
Ithaca, NY  14853-3901
Tel: 607/255-3026
Fax: 607 255 4496
E-Mail: rge2@cornell.edu
AB  - This paper provides an analysis and summary of the effects of the Workers' Compensation (WC) system on wages and work injury experience. It stresses how lessons learned from other forms of social insurance can be applied to research on WC. I begin with a brief overview of the characteristics of the WC system. Next, some simple labor market models are sketched that provide implications about how the system might affect employee compensation and the frequency and duration of both work injuries and reported WC claims.The bilk of the paper critically analyzes the relevant empirical literature, summarizing what we have learned from it and suggesting future research directions.
ER  -