Restricted Work, Workers’ Compensation, and Days Away from Work

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• Personal Author:
  Miller TR ; Waehrer GM
• Description:
  We use an establishment-based survey of occupational injuries to analyze employers' use of restricted work and its effect on days away from work. Because restricted work provisions vary with the duration and severity of injury, we use its predicted probability in our analysis of days away from work. Higher benefits and lower state waiting periods increase the likelihood of restricted work which substitutes for days away from work especially for hard-to-diagnose injuries. Our results suggest that failure to control for restricted work may yield downward biased estimates of the direct effect of income replacement on work loss. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accidents Injuries Models Occupational-accidents Risk-analysis Risk-factors Surveillance-programs Work-environment Worker-health Workers
• ISSN:
  0022-166X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  38
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033188
• Citation:
  J Hum Resour 2003 Oct; 38(4):964-991
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Calverton, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20000601
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Human Resources
• End Date:
  20040531
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7776c6a029357c16288f0e771e35934a8a6a9a83ddcfcf5b259aafeb2fb0e8af4f7f2b844028e49663fab41a7dfcccd2c86101ef0e09d79a3f48f8fb6c665b21
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/188862/cdc_188862_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.98 MB ]