Substitution between unemployment insurance and workers' compensation: an analysis applied to the risk of workplace accidents

Article Abstract:

A model which integrates substitution between unemployment insurance benefits and workers' compensation is presented. The model focuses on an extension of earlier studies involving post-injury duration of absence from work and develops a situation wherein a worker can optimize expected utility under four conditions. Results show that increased workers' compensation benefits generate related increases on the average duration of accidents given elasticity conditions from 0.9 to 1.4.

Research, Workplace accidents, Unemployment insurance, Workers' compensation

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On reforming the welfare system: workfare meets the negative income tax

Article Abstract:

Workfare can be superior to a negative income tax (NIT) at improving the system of welfare benefits. A study demonstrates that workfare can be more effective at distributing equity and remain efficient when tested on a model of a small open economy (Quebec 1986). The incentive to seek employment under the workfare system is also more politically palatable. However, some NIT plans were superior to workfare, so a combined approach should be examined.

Models, Welfare, Public assistance, Workfare programs, Negative income tax

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Welfare benefits and the duration of welfare spells: evidence from a natural experiment in Canada

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The impact of benefits on the length of welfare spells using information from a natural experiment that took place in the Province of Quebec in august 1989 is examined. A series of semi-parametric hazard models analogous to the regression approach to difference-in-differences estimation is assumed.

Canada, Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Scientific Research and Development Services, Development, Economic Programs-Total Govt, Administration of Economic Programs, Analysis, Economic aspects, Forecasts and trends, Economic development, Market trend/market analysis, Welfare economics

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