TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Karen AU - Burton,John F. AU - Bodah,Matthew M. AU - Thomason,Terry ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Workplace injuries and diseases: prevention and compensation : essays in honor of Terry Thomason AV - HD7103.65.U6 W685 2005eb U1 - 363.11/6/0973 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Kalamazoo, Mich. PB - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research KW - Workers' compensation KW - United States KW - Congresses KW - Employers' liability insurance KW - Employers' liability KW - Industrial safety KW - Costs KW - Industrial hygiene KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10103878 ER -