Workers' Compensation and Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
利用1979-84年制造业企业纵向数据，发现工伤赔偿福利提高会增加损失工作日工伤案例，但该效应在大型、经验评级较高的企业中较小，且结果在多种计量模型中稳健。
A longitudinal establishment data set is used to assess the effect of changes in workers' compensation benefits on the incidence of lost-workday injury and illness cases in manufacturing for the years 1979-84. Higher benefits are found generally to increase lost-workday cases. However, consistent with theory, the benefit effect is smaller in larger, more highly experience-rated establishments. After initial estimates are obtained using ordinary and weighted least squares, several count data models are explored that are more appropriate for the integer industry and illness counts in the data. The results are consistent across the specifications. Copyright 1991 by University of Chicago Press.