02882nam a22004094a 4500 ebr10103878 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 050407s2005 miua sb 111 0 eng 2005009746 0880993243 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)228120969 n-us--- HD7103.65.U6 W685 2005eb 363.11/6/0973 22 Workplace injuries and diseases [electronic resource] : prevention and compensation : essays in honor of Terry Thomason / Karen Roberts, John F. Burton, Jr., Matthew M. Bodah, editors. Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2005. xv, 301 p. : ill. 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. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 ... [et al.] -- 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 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. Electronic books. local Roberts, Karen, 1949- Burton, John F. Bodah, Matthew M. (Matthew Michael) Thomason, Terry. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10103878 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 102265 102265