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Report

Evaluation of California’s Permanent Disability Rating Schedule: Interim Report

The authors focus on California's permanent disability rating schedule, which is at the center of legislative debates on how to reduce the costs of the state's workers' compensation system.

Jan 1, 2004
Report

Improving Dispute Resolution for California's Injured Workers: Executive Summary

Analyzes the causes of delays, high cost, and inconsistency in the California workers' compensation courts.

Jan 1, 2003
Report

Improving Dispute Resolution for California's Injured Workers

Analyzes the causes of delays, high cost, and inconsistency in the California workers' compensation courts.

Jan 1, 2003
Testimony

Inflation in Hospital Charges: Implications for the California Workers’ Compensation Program

Testimony presented to the California Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on January 15, 2003.

Jan 1, 2003
Report

An Evaluation of New Mexico Workers' Compensation Permanent Partial Disability and Return to Work

Examines post-injury employment, earnings losses, and the adequacy and equity of benefits for New Mexicans with permanent partial disabilities, and compares the results to workers injured in four other states.

Jan 1, 2001
Report

Permanent Disability at Private, Self-Insured Firms: A Study of Earnings Loss, Replacement, and Return to Work for Workers' Compensation Claimants

This report examines the consequences of a disabling workplace injury for workers at 68 private self-insured employers in California from 1991 through 1995.

Jan 1, 2001
Research Brief

Workers' Compensation Outcomes Differ Little at Self-Insured and Insured Firms: Raising Questions About Adequacy and Equity of Benefits

Workers who file claims for permanent partial disabilities from job-related accidents at private self-insured firms in California recover less than half of their injury-related wage losses during the first five years after injury.

Jan 1, 2001
Journal Article

Managed Care and the Workers' Compensation Bargain

Summarizes the October 1999 issue of Medical Care. Thie issue reports the results of an evaluation of a workers' compensation managed-care pilot in Washington State.

Jan 1, 1999
Report

Compensating Permanent Workplace Injuries: A Study of the California System

This report evaluates the workers' compensation system by examining its efficiency and the adequacy and equity of its benefits, and suggests system reforms.

Jan 1, 1998
Report

Findings and Recommendations on California's Permanent Partial Disability System: Executive Summary

This is the executive summary of a comprehensive report that evaluates the workers' compensation system by examining its efficiency and the adequacy and equity of its benefits, and suggests system reforms.

Jan 1, 1997
People

Michael Dworsky

Senior Economist; Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University; B.A. in economics, philosophy, Williams College
People

Denise D. Quigley

Policy Researcher; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ph.D. in public policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.A. in German, Monterey Institute of International Studies; M.A. in international policy, Monterey Institute of International Studies
People

Stephanie Rennane

Economist; Affiliate Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education Ph.D. in economics, University of Maryland; M.A. in economics, University of Maryland; B.A. in economics, University of Michigan

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