Titlebook: Simulating Workplace Safety Policy; Thomas J. Kniesner,John D. Leeth Book 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers 1995 Simulation.economics.employ

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Policy Implications,workplace safety. The two pillars of job safety policy in the United States are the states’ workers’ compensation insurance systems (WC) and the federal government’ s Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA). Here we discuss recent changes in U.S. workplace safety policy and suggest cost effective reforms to OSHA and WC.

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Introduction,laughtering, and processing of chickens (Smothers 1991). By all accounts working conditions in most poultry processing plants are horrendous. Plants are frequently hot and greasy, and the air reeks of chicken, ammonia, and chlorine. Many workers use dangerous and poorly maintained equipment at an ex

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The Economics of Workplace Safety, to be injured on the job and seven times more likely to die from an industrial accident than workers in finance, insurance, and real estate.. Additionally, within each industry some firms exhibit sterling safety records while others consistently have an exorbitant number of injuries. The extreme ex

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The Simulation Model, interest encompasses both product markets, as typified by the automobile industry study of Griliches (1971), and labor markets, as in the study of worker safety and compensating wage differentials by Thaler and Rosen (1975). Econometric research summarized in Chapter 2 reveals the difficulty of est

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,Asymmetric Information Problems in Workers’ Compensation Insurance, now examine the economic and policy implications of asymmetric information on the part of workers and firms concerning injury severity and compensability under WC. Concern over the difficulty in determining the information content of workers’ compensation claims is underscored in a recent . (1987,

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Policy Implications,for work-related injury risks (Kniesner and Leeth 1991b). Even though the labor market lets firms lower wages if they make their workplaces safer, there has been no decline over time in work-related injuries, which has been interpreted by policymakers as insufficient market generated incentives for

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