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Carvalho, João Pedro Pinheiro de. "Workers' compensation best estimate." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/14723.
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Mestrado em Actuarial ScienceO presente trabalho apresenta uma análise às melhores estimativas de acidentes de trabalho sob o regime de Solvência II que entrou em vigor a 1 de janeiro de 2016, apresentando uma modelização das responsabilidades com base na legislação existente, principalmente a Lei n.º 98/2009. No âmbito de Solvência II, as melhores estimativas das responsabilidades de seguros não vida são calculadas separadamente em provisão para sinistros (respeitantes a sinistros ocorridos) e provisão para prémios (relativamente a sinistros futuros que são cobertos pelas responsabilidades abrangidas pelos limites dos contratos existentes). No que diz respeito a seguros vida, as melhores estimativas devem ser calculadas separadamente para cada apólice. As responsabilidades de acidentes de trabalho apresentam a particularidade de serem compostas por diferentes naturezas, o que proporciona na sua modelização a aplicação de metodologias atuariais não-vida e vida. Em Solvência II, estas responsabilidades são divididas em duas classes de negócio: acidentes de trabalho utilizando bases técnicas não semelhante a técnicas de vida (NSTV) e rendas decorrentes de contratos de seguro de natureza não vida e relacionados com responsabilidades de seguro de acidentes e doença utilizando bases técnicas semelhantes a técnicas de vida (STV). A abordagem ao tema foi realizada de forma separada tendo em consideração a desagregação da melhor estimativa em Solvência II, e as diferentes responsabilidades de acidentes de trabalho: não semelhantes e semelhantes a técnicas de vida. Devido à literatura existente para provisionamento ser bastante diversificada, o trabalho foi desenvolvido com foco nas metodologias que mais frequentemente são aplicadas no mercado segurador.
This work presents an analysis to the Workers' Compensation best estimate under the Solvency II regime that came into force in January 1st 2016, modelling the liabilities based on the applicable legislation, mainly the Law 98/2009. Within the scope of Solvency II, the best estimate of non-life liabilities are calculated separately under claims provision (concerning claims that have already happened) and premium provision (concerning future claims that are covered by the existing contractual obligations). The best estimate of life liabilities should be calculated separately for each policy. Workers' Compensation presents the particularity of being composed of different natured liabilities, which provides in its modeling the application of life and non-life actuarial methodologies. Under Solvency II, these liabilities are split into two lines of business: Workers' Compensation insurance using non similar to life techniques (NSLT) and annuities stemming from non-life insurance contracts and relating to health insurance obligations using similar to life techniques (SLT). The approach to this report was conducted separately considering the breakdown of the best estimate under Solvency II and the Workers' Compensation liabilities divided into non similar and similar to life techniques. Due to the diversification of existing literature, this work has been developed focusing on the methodologies that are most frequently applied in the insurance market.
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Rhee, Jong Chul. "Workers' compensation as income insurance /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266362336808.
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Stuewe, David. "The Change Governance of Workers' Compensation." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518077.
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Rosa, Carlos Eduardo Barrenho da. "An internal model for workers compensation." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10941.
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Mestrado em Ciências ActuariaisO ramo Acidentes de Trabalho é um dos ramos não Vida mais interessantes de estudar em Portugal devido essencialmente à gestão das pensões que ao contrário do que é comum na maioria dos países transita para a responsabilidade da área Vida. O programa Solvência II introduz novas exigências às empresas seguradoras a fim de conferir maior proteção aos consumidores. As empresas seguradoras podem optar por desenvolver modelos internos ou adotar o modelo padrão definido pelos reguladores europeus. O nosso objetivo neste trabalho foi construir um modelo interno para o ramo Acidentes de Trabalho no qual abrangemos todas as especificidades deste ramo. Numa parte, o modelo é baseado no modelo de Merz e Wuthrich (M & W) desenvolvido especificamente para o Solvência II. O modelo M & W tem como objetivo medir possíveis flutuações ao nível das reservas entre duas previsões sucessivas realizadas. Noutra parte, o modelo é baseado no estudo de longevidade sendo este um dos riscos mais importantes discutidos hoje em dia e com elevado impacto sobre a gestão das pensões e no provisionamento realizado ao nível dos encargos de assistência vitalícia. Um modelo interno global necessita de modelar eficientemente a consequência de acidentes ocorridos e projetar a consequência de acidentes ainda não ocorridos. As seguradoras devem precaver o risco dos prémios cobrados se tornarem insuficientes para cobrir todas as obrigações assumidas. Recorremos ao uso extensivo de simulação para estimar alguns cenários extremos.
Workers Compensation is one of the most interesting Property and Casualty branches to study in Portugal. Largely influenced by Annuities management that unlike what is common in most countries is classified as Life and Savings risk. Solvency II introduces new requirements that should be fulfilled by companies in order to protect consumers. Companies can opt to develop internal models or to adopt the standard model defined by European regulators. Our goal is to build an internal model for Workers Compensation. The model must cover all specificities of this branch. In one part, the model is based on the Merz and Wüthrich (M&W) model developed for Solvency II purposes. The M&W model aims to measure possible reserves fluctuations between two successive predictions for the total ultimate claim. In the second part, the model is based on longevity study. Longevity is one of the most important risks discussed nowadays and this has large impact on annuities management and lifetime assistance. A global internal model needs not only to model the consequence of occurred accidents but also to project the ones which have not occurred yet. Companies must prevent the risk of premiums being insufficient to cover all assumed liabilities. Extensive use of simulation is made to estimate some extreme scenarios.
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Azmi, Muhammad Arsalan Raza. "Workers' Compensation Modeling Using Multiple Regression." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/28850.
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Workers? compensation insurance (WCI) is the highest cost to an employer following accidents. It is needed to predict the benefits value without taking into account the past records of an employee, which is not readily available in most cases. Employment and workers? compensation data were acquired from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Academy of Social Insurance, respectively. The statistical model was developed with SAS using multiple regression and the process was simplified using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The model predicted future values of workers compensation given a known number of covered workers for all U.S. states. The model is statistically proven to be fit for all states. The states were compared on the basis of percentage deviation from the actual values. By using this model, insurance companies and policymakers can have better understanding of workers? compensation trend and they can quotes premiums and develop policies more accurately.
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Canaday, Kylie. "Assessing California's workers' compensation policy welfare implications for injured workers /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p1470599.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed January 19, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-51).
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Kimpan, Patricia Cathleen. "Cross border workers' compensation and NAFTA analysis of coverage in American and Canadian jurisdictions /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2526.
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Kampmeier, Connie Collins. "An Illinois workers' compensation survey from the perspective of the injured worker /." Available to subscribers only, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481671921&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Pinto, João Pedro Senhorães Senra. "New credibility approaches in workers compensation insurance." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/10853.
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Mestrado em Ciências ActuariaisNo nosso relatório apresentamos diferentes interpretações da teoria de credibilidade de Bühlmann que foram aplicadas na análise da carteira de seguros de trabalho de uma seguradora portuguesa. Começamos pela apresentação e implementação dos modelos clássicos de Bühlmann-Straub e Jewell, posteriormente debruçamo-nos sobre a mais recente leitura destes modelos enquanto modelos lineares mistos. Por fim, apresentamos duas abordagens que sugerem como a credibilidade de Bühlmann poderá aperfeiçoar o desempenho dos modelos lineares generalizados.
In our report, several interpretations of Bühlmann credibility are applied in the workers compensation portfolio of a portuguese insurance company. We begin with classical implementations of Bühlmann-Straub and Jewell models, and then we display a more recent reading of those models as Linear Mixed Models. We end presenting two approaches that show how Bühlmann credibility can enhance the performance of generalized linear models.
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Chiacchiarini, Federico. "Modeling of workers’ compensation insurance under IFRS17." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/20903.
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Mestrado em Actuarial ScienceEste trabalho apresenta uma análise de como o novo regime contabilístico IFRS17 irá afectar o cálculo das Provisões Técnicas e do desempenho para a linha de seguros de compensação dos trabalhadores, com particular incidência nas questões de implementação prática. Serão também fornecidas comparações com o SII. Uma característica chave que distingue este LoB em Solvência II é que as responsabilidades são divididas entre técnicas similares vida (SLT) e técnicas similares não vida (NSLT), dependendo da natureza do sinistro específico. Isto significa que estas duas técnicas terão de ser analisadas com as metodologias apropriadas que separam a Vida do Mundo Não Vida. este documento, o foco principal é dado às técnicas SLT, e, neste contexto, serão analisados os novos conceitos requeridos pela IFRS17. Para concluir, estas noções não serão deixadas apenas a um nível teórico, mas serão acompanhadas por um trabalho prático que mostra os desafios da implementação dos conceitos da IFRS 17 num modelo específico de Solvência II e as soluções que foram implementadas para alcançar um justo equilíbrio entre os conceitos teóricos e a sua implementação efectiva.
This work presents an analysis of how the new accounting regime IFRS17 will affect the calculation of Technical Provisions and performance for the Workers' Compensation Insurance line of business with a particular focus on the practical implementation issues. Comparisons with SII will be also provided. A key feature that distinguishes this particular LoB in Solvency II is that liabilities are split between similar life techniques (SLT) and non-similar life techniques (NSLT) depending of the nature of the specific claim. This means that these two techniques will have to be analysed with the appropriate methodologies that separates the Life from the Non-life world. In this paper the main focus is given to SLT techniques, and, in this contest, the new IFRS17 required concepts will be analysed. To conclude, this notions will not be left only on a theoretical level but will be joined by a practical work that shows the challenges of implementing IFRS 17 concepts in one specific Solvency II model and the solutions that were implemented to achieve a fair balance between the theoretical concepts and the actual implementation of them.
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Chiu, Man-ling Marian. "A study of the labour legislation governing compensation for accidents at work in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12325776.
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Chadravarthy, Ravi R. "The relationship of work and worker characteristics to utilization of workers' compensation benefits." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43384.
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Fulkerson, James. "The effects of a multidisciplinary case management method on the costs of a workers' compensation plan." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002fulkersonj.pdf.
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Ekberg, Stefan. "Claim-level loss reserving for workers compensation insurance." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statistiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-256730.
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Guthrie, Robert. "The development of a holistic framework for workers compensation in Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/217.
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This exegesis describes and interprets a body of work produced by the writer from 1991 until 2001. This work includes three State Government reports and a commentary on the Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1981 (WA) contained in a Loose-leaf service published by Butterworths. In addition four refereed journal articles are included to complement the final report completed in 200l.This work shows the progressive development of a framework to describe the Western Australian compensation system. The first report, completed in 1991, explores the links between the resolution of disputed compensation claims and other elements of the compensation system. The second report, completed in 1999, is concerned with the issue of cost containment within the compensation system and the final report, completed in 2001, combines the insights of the previous two reports with the work of other commentators to develop a broad holistic framework for a compensation system in Western Australia. Underpinning the compilation of the three government reports is the legal analysis contained in the Workers Compensation Western Australia Loose-leaf service. These works, taken together with the four journal articles, evidence a link between theory and practice which provides the framework for a holistic approach to workers compensation in Western Australia.
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Cortegano, Joana Teresa Silva. "Determinants of workers' compensation insurance premium : evidence from Portugal." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8718.
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Mestrado em FinançasThe motivation under this thesis is the understanding of the reasons behind the sharp decrease of workers' compensation insurance production in Portugal, while it faces an economic crisis scenario. Many studies investigated the link between insurance demand and economic indicators. It is desired to achieve the same conclusion but trough a different way: premium risk determinants.
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Allen, Samuel Kirsch. "The economics and politics of workers' compensation, 1930-2000." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290100.
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Workers' compensation insurance in the United States began in the early twentieth century when states rapidly enacted their own versions to protect workers and limit the liability of employers. Premiums account for two percent of payrolls, and substantially more in dangerous industries, and therefore represent an important portion of the modern employment compensation package. The introductory section provides an overview of worker's compensation insurance. The second chapter outlines the crucial issues relevant to workers' compensation programs between 1930 and 2000. It also explains how the program has evolved over the past seventy years. The third chapter delves into the political economy of workers' compensation benefits. States passed workers' compensation laws in the early twentieth century and continue to frequently update important aspects of these statutes. The trend has been for state legislatures to mandate more generous benefits; however, these changes seldom occur simultaneously in all states. A panel dataset is used to explain why states mandate unequal benefits. These benefits differ in several ways, including wage replacement rates, maximum weekly benefits, and the duration of payments. To take into account the important variation, state-level information is used to construct an index that describes the expected net present value of benefits an average worker might expect to receive in each state for each year. The results suggest that federal and state governments, employment characteristics, and unionization each influence overall benefits. Then, the interaction between the wages that workers earn and their state-mandated workers' compensation benefits is explored. Economic theory implies that, all else equal, higher expected benefits will be offset by lower wages. A new strategy is developed to reduce the biases inherent in the earlier estimation techniques. I apply a two-step procedure that divides the sample and uses separate measures of benefits to understand the impact on workers' wages. The results suggest that wage offsets are largely avoided by high-wage workers and offsets for workers in hazardous occupations vary over time.
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Smith, Caroline Kristine. "Racial Disparities in a State Based Workers' Compensation System." PDXScholar, 2019. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4831.
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Racial, ethnic, and linguistic minority workers suffer higher rates of work-related injuries and illnesses in the United States compared to their White counterparts. Explanations for these higher rates include potential socioeconomic causes (education, income, and wealth) and occupational segregation into more dangerous occupations. What is less studied are the post-injury sequelae for minority workers, which is their experiences in the workers' compensation system, as well as their health and return to paid employment. What is known comes primarily from qualitative literature, which includes themes of racial discrimination (from employers, health care providers, and workers' compensation employees), a lack of information on how to navigate the workers' compensation system, and linguistically inappropriate communication with those whose first language is not the majority language. In addition, qualitative studies have found differences in the treatment of minority workers, delays in receiving partial wage payments, and worse health outcomes. Most studies examining minority workers in the workers' compensation system have not provided a theoretical framework from which to test hypotheses as to why differences exist in a social insurance system based on race, ethnicity, and language.
The purpose of this dissertation was to test the role of racial discrimination in creating worse post-injury workers' compensation outcomes for minorities, compared to English speaking Whites. This dissertation utilized fundamental cause theory to frame the hypotheses and analyses in a cross-sectional investigation of differences in workers' compensation system outcomes, using both administrative data from the workers' compensation agency, as well as survey responses from a sample of 488 injured workers in Washington State.
The survey, conducted by Washington State University Social and Economic Science Research Center (SESRC), provided many variables not available in the WC administrative data including measures of perceived racial discrimination to test the hypotheses that racial discrimination is a fundamental cause of worse workers' compensation outcomes for minorities. Fundamental cause theory suggests that there are basic or fundamental reasons for health disparities that are not caused by mechanisms linking the fundamental cause with a health outcome; in fact, these mechanisms can and do change, but the relationship between the primary cause and the health disparity outcome will remain. In addition, a fundamental cause affects multiple outcomes via multiple mechanisms. Access to resources such as income, wealth, prestige, knowledge, and beneficial social connections can reduce the impact of a disease once it occurs.
The analytic chapters in this dissertation are organized first, to address racial discrimination in health care provider outcomes; second, to address racial discrimination in workers' compensation agency outcomes; and third, to address the role of pre-injury racial discrimination in post-injury return to work outcomes. Racial discrimination was tested in this dissertation as the fundamental cause of health-care provider disparities in timeliness of follow-up care, adequacy of care, and patient satisfaction. Racial discrimination was tested in the workers' compensation agency as the fundamental cause of administrative delays and difficulties: delays in diagnostic approval and wage replacement payments, as well as language appropriate communication, and higher counts of independent medical exams.
Racial discrimination was also tested as the fundamental cause of poor return-to-work outcomes (feeling a worker returned to work too early and overall general health). Workplace support, as a possible resource (social connection), was tested as a mediator in the relationship between racial discrimination and workplace outcomes.
Due to the survey nature of the study design, replicate weights were calculated based upon information available in both the surveyed and not-surveyed population to account for non-response bias, and all analyses were bootstrapped using Stata survey software. The results support the role of racial discrimination as a fundamental cause of outcomes for hypotheses in the workers' compensation agency with clear differences in delays for diagnostic services, a higher number of independent medical exams, as well as linguistically inappropriate communication for language minorities. Racial discrimination (prior to injury) was found to be significant in overall general health for minority workers, and for feeling they had returned to work too early. Workplace support (a potential social resource), was found to mitigate the role of racial discrimination in the workplace return-to-work outcomes. This study is an initial effort to examine racial discrimination as a fundamental cause of disparities in occupational health after an injury. As the majority of adults will spend one-fifth to one-third of their lives in paid employment, the ability to heal and return to full and active employment after a work-related injury is critical to ones' self-worth, as well as to the economic stability of individuals, families, and societies. If racial, ethnic, and language minorities suffer worse outcomes in their post-injury sequelae, these results will have long-lasting implications in any quest for a more equitable society.
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Lai, Hon Sun. "Case management approach for return to work of injured workers studies on effects on system and workers' readiness /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2007. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3347747.
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Lemsky, Rick. "The use of training to decrease workers' compensation costs in a mid-size manufacturing plant." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007lemskyr.pdf.
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Olsen, Christine S. "The level of education and loss of earning capacity for Wisconsin worker's compensation claimants." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000olsenc.pdf.
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Smith, Amie L. "Biopsychosocial Variables Predict Compensation and Medical Costs of Radiofrequency Neurotomy in Utah Workers' Compensation Patients." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3854.
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Back pain is one of the most expensive medical conditions to treat. There has been a great deal of research showing that back pain surgery is expensive, but less is known about the costs of less-invasive spine procedures such as radiofrequency neurotomy. Radiofrequency neurotomy is used to treat facet joint pain and typically offers temporary pain relief by coagulating the affected nerve with radiofrequency waves to block pain messages from reaching the brain. This study aimed to document the costs of radiofrequency neurotomy in a group of participants who received the procedure through the Workers’ Compensation Fund of Utah (WCFU). Another goal of the study was to determine if any biopsychosocial variables of participants predicted costs. Biopsychosocial variables include biological (e.g., age), psychological (e.g., depression), and social (e.g., hiring a lawyer) characteristics about participants. Costs and characteristics were collected from participant medical records.
Compensation and medical costs were collected; compensation costs were wage payouts as a result of an on-the-job injury, and medical costs were direct medical costs. Both compensation and medical costs were substantial and similar to other more invasive procedures. Furthermore, three biopsychosocial characteristics predicted high costs. A high number of prior back and neck surgery and lawyer involvement predicted high compensation costs. Those same variables plus history of depression predicted high medical costs.
This was the first known study to document medical and compensation costs associated with spinal radiofrequency neurotomy. The findings add to the line of research suggesting that a biopsychosocial framework can be used to predict costs in spine care. Discovering participant characteristics that may predict high costs can inform policylevel decisions for insurers, and can be used by medical providers to influence patient care decisions. More research on the presurgical variables may lead to interventions at the patient level that can reduce high cost outcomes which could benefit both patients and payers.
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Cheng, Yau-mei Corrina. "An analysis of the employees' compensation system in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17508162.
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Ortiz, Gómez José M. "Compensation schemes when workers have different characteristics: three experimental essays." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/456035.
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Esta tesis está compuesta por tres capítulos que pueden resumirse como sigue:
En el primer capítulo de la tesis presentamos resultados de un experimento con tres jugadores cuyo objetivo es estudiar cómo los empresarios se compensan a sí mismos y cómo compensan a trabajadores con diferentes productividades y costes de esfuerzo. Usamos un juego en el que primero los trabajadores se esfuerzan y después los empresarios deciden un bono para ellos mismos y para los trabajadores. Nuestra motivación es contribuir al entendimiento de las dimensiones vertical y horizontal de los asuntos de distribución de los empresarios. También estamos interesados en cómo las decisiones de distribución de los empresarios están afectadas por el pago secreto. Nuestro diseño incluye cuatro tratamientos: 1) trabajadores con diferentes productividades e información completa; 2) trabajadores con diferentes productividades y pago secreto; 3) trabajadores con diferentes costes de esfuerzo e información completa; y 4) trabajadores con diferentes costes de esfuerzo y pago secreto. Encontramos que, de media, los empresarios no pagan salarios relativos en concordancia con niveles de producción relativos. Según nuestros datos, sobre 1/3 de producción adicional se traslada en compensación adicional. La tendencia igualitaria de las políticas de compensación de los empresarios, en conjunto con el hecho que los trabajadores con productividad alta se esfuerzan más en todos los casos lleva a niveles de ganancia similares entre trabajadores. También encontramos que el pago secreto no afecta a las diferencias de salarios entre trabajadores. En todos los tratamientos, sobre el 50% de las decisiones de los empresarios son compatibles con equidad de producción y con equidad de coste de esfuerzo.
En el segundo capítulo, presentamos un análisis experimental que investiga políticas de compensación y sus efectos cuando los trabajadores difieren en su impacto en las ganancias potenciales de la empresa. Específicamente, establecemos tres tipos de trabajadores de acuerdo con su impacto en las ganancias. Introducimos un trabajador estándar; un trabajador estrella, que tiene el doble de productividad que el estándar; y un guardián, que genera pérdidas si su esfuerzo es bajo. Los empresarios tendrán combinaciones de estos trabajadores y establecerán compensaciones. Nuestro objetivo es analizar los determinantes de diferentes tipos de trabajadores y cómo afectan en las decisiones salariales. Observamos que los guardianes obtienen mayor compensación en relación al estándar que lo que recibe la estrella, pues los empresarios buscan evitar la producción negativa. Además, estás diferencias en salarios afectan a los esfuerzos de los negativamente discriminados cuando un guardián y una estrella están emparejados, pero no cambian el nivel de esfuerzo de los positivamente discriminados en ninguna situación.
En el tercer capítulo, estudiamos el efecto incentivo de la amenaza de despido cuando los empresarios tienen información limitada sobre los trabajadores. Mostramos que, independientemente de la cantidad de información que posea el empresario, la amenaza de despido incrementa sustancialmente la producción de los trabajadores y reduce el ocio. Incluso cuando el empresario no tiene información individual sobre el esfuerzo ni la producción de los trabajadores, la amenaza de despido tiene un fuerte efecto incentivo. Una mínima cantidad de información individual sobre el esfuerzo de los trabajadores como el tiempo de trabajo empleado es suficiente para asegurar un fuerte efecto incentivo.This dissertation is composed by three chapters that may be summarized as follows: In the first chapter of the thesis we present results from three-player experiments aimed at studying distributional concerns in how owner-managers compensate themselves and workers of different productivities and effort costs. We use a game in which workers first exert effort and owner-managers then decide on bonuses for themselves and workers. Our motivation is to contribute to understanding both the vertical and the horizontal dimensions of the distributional concerns of owner-managers. We are also interested in how owner-managers decisions’ are affected by pay secrecy. Our design includes four treatments: 1) different productivities of workers with complete information; 2) different productivities of workers with pay secrecy among workers; 3) different effort cost of workers with complete information; and 4) different effort cost of workers with pay secrecy among workers. We find that, on average, managers do not pay relative wages in accordance to relative production levels. In our data about 1/3 of additional production translates into additional compensation. The equalizing tendency of managers’ compensation policies together with the fact that high-productivity workers exert more effort in all cases leads to ex post similar income levels among workers. We also find that pay secrecy does not affect wage differences among workers. Across all treatments about 50% of all manager choices are compatible both with ‘production equity’ and with effort- cost equity. In the second chapter, we present an experimental analysis that investigates compensation policies and its effects when workers differ in its distribution impact on profits. Specifically, we set three types of workers according to their impact in profits. We introduce one standard worker (routinely used in gift-exchange experiments); a star worker who outperforms the standard worker by doubling its productivity for every level of effort; and a guardian worker who generates losses unless he/she exerts high effort. Managers will face combinations of these workers and set compensations. Our objective, hence, it is to analyze the determinants of different types of workers on wage setting decisions. We observe that guardians get more compensation in relation to the soldier than stars do since managers seek to avoid negative production. Moreover these differences change the effort decisions by the negatively discriminated worker when a guardian and a star are paired together, but it does not change the effort decision of the positively discriminated worker in any situation. We interpret this as evidence of unacceptable unfair wage distributions and give a reason for its cause and prevalence. In the third chapter, we study the incentive effect of firing threats when bosses have limited information about workers. We show that, regardless of the amount of information possessed by the boss, firing threats substantially boost workers’ production and reduce on-the-job leisure. Even when the boss has no individual information about workers’ effort and production levels, firing threats have strong incentive effects. Any minimal amount of individual information about workers individual effort such as the time they spend at their work station is sufficient to ensure strong incentive effects.
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Mahoney, Thomas Gregory. "Workers' compensation claimant fraud investigations : deterring light blue-collar crime." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/workers-compensation-claimant-fraud-investigations-deterring-light-bluecollar-crime(19c674ec-0405-4631-9e3e-88de8afce7d6).html.
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Programme evaluation research examined the criminological and socio-legal issues of a Claimant Fraud Investigation Program (CFIP) operating inside the workers' compensation system. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to evaluate the programmes' choice of deterrence as an instrumental mechanism for achieving compliance. Key aspects of the programme were analysed from both criminological and socio-legal standpoints. Justice and liberty tensions were examined in reference to the programmes' deterrence mechanisms and the perceptions of fourteen participants' were thematically analysed. The study develops an analytically useful concept of light blue-collar crime that could be applied to other organisations and scenarios. The study concluded the programme is not effective and has more of a symbolic than instrumental value. It conducts itself ethically, however, there are problems with its' choice of deterrence and the study indicates there is a low probability for a deterrent effect. Recommendations are made for other actors and institutions to play non-deterrence based roles intended to achieve compliance.
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Serrano, Sara Coelho. "Analysis of the reinsurance treaty for a workers? Compensation portfolio." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8995.
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Mestrado em Ciências ActuariaisEste relatório assenta numa análise à sustentabilidade do ramo de Acidentes de Trabalho no contexto do estágio realizado na Allianz Portugal. Inicialmente é explicado o contexto legal do ramo de forma a compreender-se melhor as características específicas deste. Por conseguinte serão detalhados os modelos e pressupostos, utilizados pela Companhia, no cálculo das provisões técnicas de Acidentes de Trabalho. O foco principal será na análise ao tratado de resseguro de Excedente de danos que cobre os custos com sinistros de Acidentes de Trabalho e o seu impacto no resultado técnico. A análise é feita com base no Modelo de Risco coletivo e em indicadores estatísticos como o Value-at-Risk, coeficiente de assimetria, variância e valor esperado.
This report resumes the analysis of the sustainability of Worker's Compensation within the internship at Allianz Portugal. The legal framework of the business is primarily explained as it is important to understand the business specifications. Models and assumptions used, by the Company, in the calculation of technical provisions for Worker's Compensation will be detailed. The main focus of this paper will be in the analysis of the Excess of Loss reinsurance treaty that covers costs from Worker's Compensation and its impact in the technical result. The analysis is based on the Collective Risk Model and statistical indicators, such as Value-at-Risk, skewness coefficient, variance and expected value.
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Miller, Jennifer LL. "Individualized After Visit Summary Effectiveness on Patients Receiving Workers’ Compensation." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1615715181789015.
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Grewe, Jennifer R. "Outcomes of Rotator Cuff Surgery in Utah Workers’ Compensation Patients." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1056.
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Currently, rotator cuff injuries are the most common problem for the shoulder and accounted for 4.1 million physicians visits. Partial and full thickness tears are more common in people over the age of 50. The increased prevalence of rotator cuff injuries in the United States population certainly affects the working population and often represents a significant economic burden for employers. Few studies have examined outcomes in worker compensation patients or considered biopsychosocial predictive variables for rotator cuff repairs. The current study aimed to characterize injured workers who have undergone rotator cuff repairs across a number of pre- and postprocedural variables, evaluate multidimensional functional and quality of life outcomes, and examine biopsychosocial variables predictive of success and failure in this sample.
The current study examined 93 injured workers who had undergone at least one rotator cuff repair within the past five years. Participants were solicited through the Worker’s Compensation Fund of Utah (WCF) computerized database. The current study used a retrospective cohort design, patients’ medical charts were reviewed, and various preprocedural variables were coded for analysis including age at the time of the rotator cuff repair, lawyer involvement in the claim, prior shoulder surgery history, and quantity of other compensation claims. Of the total sample, 47 patients (50.5%) were contacted and completed outcome surveys that assessed patient satisfaction, shoulder functional impairment, disability status, and general physical and mental health functioning.
Findings revealed that approximately one third of the patients were totally disabled (29.8%), had poor shoulder specific functioning (36.2%), and were dissatisfied with their current shoulder condition (31.7%). A multivariate regression model was utilized in predicting patient outcomes. Specifically, the number of WCF claims of the patient was a robust predictor of multidimensional outcomes, while age and gender were less predictive of outcomes, and the presence of a prior shoulder surgery reflected no predictive power. Results of descriptive, correlational, and regression analyses are compared to existing data for rotator cuff repair patients when available or to other surgical procedures with similar populations. The study limitations are discussed, such as small sample size, the retrospective design, and lack of matched controls.
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Calvey, Jo. "Women's experiences of the workers' compensation system in Queensland, Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2002. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/731.
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This was a phenomenological study undertaken to understand women's experience of the workers' compensation system. Eleven women were interviewed. They ranged in age from twenty-five to sixty-five years and represented diverse socio-economic and educational backgrounds. All women were from a non-indigenous background. The initial question to women was "Can you tell me what it is like to be involved in the workers' compensation system?" The narratives were analysed and interpreted using Hycner's (1985) phenomenological guidelines. Five core themes were found: negative versus positive/neutral experiences, the workplaces response and role in the process, women's experiences of payouts and tribunals, reasons why women may not claim workers' compensation, and the impact of the process on each women and their family(s). Acker's theory of 'gendered institutions' was used to understand why "many apparently gender-neutral processes are sites of gender production" (Acker, 1992b, p. 249). The experiences of the eleven women suggested that the workers' compensation system in Queensland is gendered; 'The women indicated that the workers compensation process was a disincentive to making a claim. WorkCover was viewed as siding with the employer, bureaucratic in nature and lacking values associated with empathy, sympathy and caring. Recommendations for improvements to the workers' compensation included: establish legal obligations and enforcement of occupational health and safety responsibilities to injured or ill workers; adoption of occupational health and safety values by employers; change the attitudes of employers (recognising women as breadwinners and workers are not disposable); a single case manager to advocate for injured or ill workers; recognition of mental and emotional consequences of an injury or illness provision of rehabilitation that recognises mental and emotional factors as well as the importance of family participation; greater involvement of employers and employees in the rehabilitation process; and finally, improved service delivery which involves consistency, ethics, clarity, (regarding the WorkCover process for injured workers and employers), accountability and involvement of all parties. The knowledge embedded in the interviews, expressed through core stories and themes, was essential to making women's voices visible and providing an insight into service delivery based on women's experiences and needs.
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Kozitza, Chad Weston. "A workers' compensation cost charge back system for Georgia-Pacific Corporation's Crossett Paper operations." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999kozitzac.pdf.
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Ng, Shuk-fong Betty. "An evaluation of the extent of protection of employees' legal entitlements in the event of insolvency in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22054212.
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Williamson, Brian Cleveland, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Extending the workers' compensation act 1987 (N.S.W.) to include independent contractors and to allow more highly paid workers to insure fully their income, with particular reference to engineers." Deakin University, 1992. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050902.104134.
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In mid-1987, the existing workers compensation system in New South Wales was replaced by a new Scheme, called WorkCover. While WorkCover solved a number of the financial problems that had plagued its predecessor, its enactment created other issues. Furthermore, WorkCover has failed to deal with a number of gaps in providing compensation for occupational injuries, most notably those suffered by independent contractors. By combining a study of aspects of industrial law and industrial relations, this thesis will examine some of those problems and gaps, in particular:
(a) Should WorkCover be amended to enable independent contractors to come within its ambit?
(b) Should there be additional insurance cover available (known as top-up insurance) to insure those parts of workers wages presently left unprotected by WorkCover?
(c) Should workers be permitted to take out another form of top-up insurance to increase the quantum of death cover presently provided by the Scheme?
(d) Should independent contractors who arc permitted to enter WorkCover also be permitted to obtain the extended cover set out in (b) and (c) above?
Where appropriate, the thesis compares WorkCover to the workers compensation schemes in other Australian jurisdictions. It develops each of the matters referred to above by referring to the results of the writers survey of members of the Institution of Engineers (NSW Branch) which was conducted in May and June 1991.
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Moritz, Ann Laraine, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Arts and Science. "Uncertain resistance : an ethnography of an injured workers association and its relations with a Workers' Compensation Board." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1996, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/30.
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This thesis is an ethnographic account of how people in a particular situation of bureaucratic domination developed tactics and adopted discourses to present themselves as active agents capable of mobilizing resources, individually and at a collective level. Specifically, it involves a description and analysis of power dynamics, experienced efficacy, and associated processes of defining self and others in the context of a newly forming injured workers support group in their relations with a Workers' Compensation Board. Appropriate to the study of an injured workers group, the thesis draws upon a body of literature which focuses on the everyday practices of people in concrete social contexts. James C. Scott's work on domination and resistance privides a primary framework for the study, elaborated by Michel De Certeau's concepts of 'strategy' and 'tactic' as well as Foucault's notion of 'carceral' networks. Among the main findings was the recognition of the extent to which individual group members engaged in creative, and often effective tactical acts of resistance against the WCB and yet also against their own formal association. Moreover, as the group appropriated elements of bureaucratic and trade union discourses it shifted toward also engaging in strategic social action. The thesis concludes with practical recommendations concerning the ways such associations are formed and operate, as well as policy options for workers' compensation boards in general.ix, 215 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Takizawa, Ayumi. "Workers' compensation facing current issues : comparative analysis between Japan and Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82671.
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Karoshi, or death from overwork, is a tragic modern work event. Continuous occurrence of karoshi in Japan offers an opportunity to reconsider the contemporary working environment, and especially the workers' compensation system. Strongly bound by the traditional notion of work accident, the Japanese workers' compensation system has shown difficulty handling karoshi cases. This fact calls into question the adequacy of the current workers' compensation scheme in the work environment it is meant to oversee. To analyze the issue, this thesis will use a comparative law method. The basis of comparison will be Ontario, Canada, which shares a system similar to Japan's, but does not produce karoshi cases. Particular emphasis will be put on stress claims and claims from women, since both share some similarities with karoshi claims. The findings from this comparison will offer a valuable basis for discussion of the current and the future of workers' compensation and other protection systems in Japan.
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Cole, Casey K. "Unauthorized identities| The legal barriers to workers compensation among unauthorized migrants." Thesis, University of Colorado at Denver, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1556848.
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This study examines the legal barriers of those engaged in identity loan face when filing for workers' compensation. Farm workers are among the most marginalized groups of unauthorized migrants laborers. Those workers engaged in identity loan are further exploited because of their precarious employment status. Identity loan is a when a worker borrows another persons Social Security Number in order to be employed. When that individual is injured on the job they do not file a workers' compensation claim because fear of employer retaliation, exposure to the government and misinformation. Everyone in California has a right to workers' compensation no matter his or her legal or employment status. Workers' compensation attorneys were interviewed to understand the obstructions farm workers' using identity loan are up against when filing for workers' compensation. Proof of identity and misinformation are among the most substantial barriers to successfully filing a workers' compensation claim.
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Moniz, Francisco Fernandes Correia do Canto. "Healthcare provider effciency in workers' compensation : an approach with Machine Learning." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/19400.
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Mestrado em Actuarial ScienceO ramo de Acidentes de Trabalho é uma linha de negócio obrigatória e com bastante competitividade. Nos últimos anos, temos observado um crescimento na popularidade de "Data Science" e esta transformação passa também por atualizar os modelos e processos internos aplicados em seguros. Após um Acidente de Trabalho, é recomendado ao beneficiário um prestador clínico para acompanhar o seu tratamento. Usando várias variáveis sociais e patológicas modelamos custos médicos e de transportes, dependendo estes do prestador clínico principal do lesado. Esta metodologia permite que os gestores de sinistros tenham acesso não só à melhor recomendação como também a uma estimativa de custos. Os modelos de custo esperado e frequência foram desenvolvidos usando o algoritmo "Extreme Gradient Boosting" em vez de modelos mais tradicionais como os GLM. Este é um algoritmo de "Machine Learning" útil para previsão tanto em regressão como em classificação. Para problemas com muitos dados, este algoritmo tende a prever com maior precisão e rapidez. Para uma utilização eficaz do modelo as variáveis categóricas são codificadas em numéricas através de "target encoding". Isto é, as observações são agrupadas de acordo com os níveis da variável e com o ano de ocorrência, e é calculada a média da variável de resposta para cada nível com as observações dos 3 anos antecedentes. Por fim, para avaliar o valor acrescentado do modelo desenvolvido, calculamos os custos incorridos caso optássemos pela recomendação em prática. A nova recomendação consegue poupar até 1,7 milhões de euros por ano entre despesas médicas e de transportes.
Workers' Compensation is a mandatory and very competitive Line of Business (LoB) for Insurance Companies. Companies cannot raise premiums too much from fear of losing market share, but they also cannot lower them as it needs to be financially viable. With the growing popularity of Data Science models, internal processes are being adapted to more precise and advanced models. Following a work accident, a healthcare provider is recommended to the injured workers. It was our main objective in this internship to optimize this recommendation system. Our solution provides an estimate of medical and transportation cost which depends on the healthcare provider. With this project, claim managers can have access to the most efficient healthcare unit, as well as an estimate of the corresponding liability. Models for the cost were developed using Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) as an alternative to the staple, Generalized Linear Models (GLM). By changing the loss function we applied XGB to both regression and classification problems and achieved more precise predictions. To encode categorical variables in numerical values, we developed an algorithm that groups costs according to each level of a variable for the past 3 years and then computes its average. This encoding technique is similar to target encoding. To assess the added value of this model, we compute the costs for the current recommendation applied. The new recommendation recognizes cheaper alternatives and predicts savings in total expenses of up to 1,7 million Euros.
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Elias, Jeffrey A. "The economic impact of rehabilitation on Workers' Compensation : an exploratory study /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148777503417999.
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Guthrie, Robert. "The development of a holistic framework for workers compensation in Australia." Curtin University of Technology, School of Business Law, 2002. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=13031.
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This exegesis describes and interprets a body of work produced by the writer from 1991 until 2001. This work includes three State Government reports and a commentary on the Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1981 (WA) contained in a Loose-leaf service published by Butterworths. In addition four refereed journal articles are included to complement the final report completed in 200l.This work shows the progressive development of a framework to describe the Western Australian compensation system. The first report, completed in 1991, explores the links between the resolution of disputed compensation claims and other elements of the compensation system. The second report, completed in 1999, is concerned with the issue of cost containment within the compensation system and the final report, completed in 2001, combines the insights of the previous two reports with the work of other commentators to develop a broad holistic framework for a compensation system in Western Australia. Underpinning the compilation of the three government reports is the legal analysis contained in the Workers Compensation Western Australia Loose-leaf service. These works, taken together with the four journal articles, evidence a link between theory and practice which provides the framework for a holistic approach to workers compensation in Western Australia.
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Moses, Julia Margaret. "Industrial accident compensation policies, state and society in Britain, Germany and Italy, 1870-1925." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609115.
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Moeti, Michael. "The structural role of the Workers' Compensation Board in the individual economy of British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28179.
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This thesis outlines the structural problems that, affect the operation of the Workers' Compensation Board within the industrial economy of B.C. The study confines itself to the years between 1972 and 1937, a period in which workers' compensation in B.C. underwent political and economic transformations under the governmental aegis of the New Democratic Party government and then the Social Credit Party. In order to understand the ostensibly contradictory functions of the WCB, a partially autonomous component of the state, liberal-pluralist and Neo-Marxist models are compared and contrasted.
The thesis concludes that the UCB serves two principal functions: capital accumulation and legitimation of the status quo. Historical and contemporary evidence shows that the WCB continues to serve the interests of employers at the expense of workers. Low government expenditure on health and safety safeguards, delaying of workers' claims, weak penalties against employers violating safety legislation, the chronic scarcity of safety inspectors, and the habitual undercompensation of claims, are clear indications that the WCB puts costs ahead of workers' health. The WCB's rejection of radical solutions to the problems, solutions likely to offend employers, is further evidence of the pro-capital bias of the WCB.
Thus the study rejects the liberal-pluralist interpretive framework and reaffirms the structuralist, interpretation as an appropriate schema for understanding how the WCB operates within a capitalist economy. Alternatives to the WCB policy such as a universal disability plan, are explored.
The chief method of investigation used in this research study was to interview workers and their representatives, lawyers specialising in the WCB, and WCB staff. Available WCB data and various evaluative reports on the WCB were important secondary sources of information.Arts, Faculty of
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van, de Water Nicholas. "Workers' compensation claims for occupational Tuberculosis in South African health care workers: A survey of process and outcomes." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29192.
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Occupational TB is the most frequently reported occupational disease in health care workers (HCWs) in South Africa. With the emergence of drug resistant strains and their associated health risks, and the associated increased risk for contracting these strains for HCWs, it becomes increasingly important to ensure that the worker’s compensation system is functioning properly for this disease. Whilst many studies have captured the poor functioning of the compensation system for workers in general in South Africa, the closest proxy examining the compensation of HCWs compensation for occupational TB is a study reviewing practices of occupational health nurses responsible for these cases. Whilst examining occupational injuries, workers, in general, report negative experiences with workers’ compensation processes. This study aimed to investigate the experience of health care workers whose cases of occupational TB were reported via the Western Cape Government Health department (WCG:H) to the Compensation Fund of the Department of Labour for compensation claim purposes.
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This study was a case series with retrospective description, with a qualitative component. Simple random sampling was done on a subset of the population of cases of occupational TB recorded on a database held by the WCG:H administrative office responsible for submitting claims on behalf of WCG:H employees to the Compensation Fund. The study aimed to interview at least 100 HCWs who had reported their occupational TB as per the above mentioned database. In anticipation of a low expected response rate, 300 cases were sampled. Claim status for this sample were evaluated. Utilising general details obtained, an attempt was made to contact each HCW for a telephonic interview consisting of both open and close-ended (qualitative) questions. Fifty-one interviewers were completed. Interviews comprised of a structured telephonic interview carried out by one of three interviewers. The questionnaire consisted of three main sections examining (a) the experience of benefits available for people getting an occupational disease; (b) the experience of the process of reporting a case of an occupational disease to the Compensation Fund and (c) the process of having developed occupational TB as a HCW.
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Nearly half of the 300 cases from the provincial database had no record found on claim status check on the Compensation Fund website (n = 131, 46%). For claims without resolution with either acceptance or repudiation, the median waiting period from date of submission to 31 Dec 2017 was 5.8 years (IQR 3.2 - 9.2). 51 of the 144 cases for which contact attempt was made, gave consent (35% consent rate). Just under one third (n = 15, 31%) of the interviewees did not access occupational leave for their TB. Three quarters (n = 39; 75%) of employees incurred medical costs either personally or by their personal medical aid in relation to their diagnosis and treatment of TB. 21 (42%) of the participants reported ongoing medical problems and one reported being compensated for this. HCWs’ experience of contracting TB was marked by the experiences of stigma, surprise in contracting TB and financial stress as a result of their diagnosis. In addition, the experience of reporting their cases for compensation purposes was marred by poor administration and communication from all parties involved in the process.
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The workers’ compensation system, i.e. the whole process from reporting through to benefit provision, has again been found to have many deficiencies. In this instance, HCWs are not receiving compensation benefits rightfully due to them for occupational TB. The experiences of HCWs contracting TB have been described as mostly being negative. In these negative experiences remedies to the system can be sought. The administrative components of submitting a claim, both by the claimant and by WCG:H to the Compensation Fund, have been found in this study to have a number of obstacles and gaps. Reform in communication, record keeping and timeously checking of claim status and payment of relevant compensation are required from the provincial level. Dedicated occupational health services were recommended by participants as these were expected to improve the service to potential claimants, as well as provide a source of information about the diagnosis and compensation aspects.
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Cheng, Yau-mei Corrina, and 鄭有媚. "An analysis of the employees' compensation system in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31964898.
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Lee, Phyllis Pui-yiu. "Is there a better way to solve the disputes concerning employees' compensation claims?" access abstract and table of contents access full-text, 2006. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/ezdb/dissert.pl?ma-slw-b2132427xa.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2006.Master of arts in arbitration and dispute resolution, City University of Hong Kong, School of Law. Title from title screen (viewed on Sept. 20, 2006) Includes bibliographical references.
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Chollak, Mark A. "Working the graveyard shift black lung disease and the struggle for compensation, 1890-1970 /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1445035901&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Riat, Lorrie L. "Early-return-to-work programs : an exploratory study of the effects of program policies and practices on organizational outcomes." PDXScholar, 1992. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4423.
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Early-return-to-work (ERTW) programs for injured workers are a relatively new development. While it is widely believed that such programs are the primary means of controlling workers' compensation costs after an injury has occurred, little research has been done on how these programs accomplish that end. This thesis is an exploratory examination of the factors involved in ERTW programs and the relationship between components of ERTW programs for injured workers and organizational outcomes, specifically the cost of medical care and wage reimbursement associated with workers' compensation claims.
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Decker, Lisa. "Controlling the cost of workers' compensation in construction: making the pieces fit." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40665.
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McKee, Herbert G. Jr. "Wellness programs in police departments and how they effect workers' compensation claims." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/873.
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Guthrie, Robert. "The convergence of industrial and workers compensation laws in the 1990s in Western Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1152.
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This dissertation describes and interprets the effects of the significant changes to the workers compensation, industrial and related laws that occurred in the early 1990s in Western Australia. These could be characterised as motivated by a desire by the then Coalition Government to reduce access to legal representation in compensation claims, limit the potential of workers to claim damages for negligence and reduce the use of collective bargaining mechanisms to resolve industrial disputes. Arguably, the common philosophical themes were to individualise the relationship between employer and employee and to reduce the bargaining strength of workers. In general terms, these themes were presented under the guise of flexible workplace relations. Whether these outcomes were achieved is not the subject of this analysis, rather, the aim is to show that one (perhaps unintended) consequence of the legislative changes of the early 1990s was to create significant areas of overlap in various employment related laws. These areas of overlap have led to some difficulties within the various tribunals involved in the resolution of employment related disputes. Over the last decade, the issues arising from the 1990s amendments have crystallized into important principles, which are discussed in this work. The thesis of this dissertation is that an examination of the development of the industrial and workers compensation laws in Western Australia in the 1990s establishes sufficient commonality between the industrial relations and compensation systems to warrant the rationalisation of these two jurisdictions.
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Smith, Jonathan Martin. "Work, worker, and injury factors associated with reporting and workers' compensation claims for low-back pain among automobile manufacturers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape4/PQDD_0012/MQ50371.pdf.
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Cameron, Simon. "The history and sociology of medical involvement in workers' compensation legislation, 1880-1990 /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MPM/09mpmc182.pdf.
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