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Title: The Earnings Losses of Injured Men: Reported and Unreported Injuries
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Woock, Christopher |
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The Earnings Losses of Injured Men: Reported and Unreported Injuries MPRA Paper No. 14688, Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRE), December 2007. Also: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14688/1/MPRA_paper_14688.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRA) Keyword(s): Benefits; Disability; Disabled Workers; Earnings; Injuries; Worker's Compensation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using individual reports of workplace injuries, I estimate the effect of injuries on the labor market earnings of men. Injured workers suffer large and persistent annual earnings losses, an average of $2,200 per year following injury. Moreover, data restrictions on previous studies resulted in earnings losses 1.2 to 3 times larger than those found when all injured workers are compared to uninjured workers. Largest losses occur when a work limiting disability follows injury, with average losses from $4,000 to $8,000. The findings suggest a more nuanced picture than previously presented, and suggest focusing on injuries resulting in a disability |
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Woock, Christopher. "The Earnings Losses of Injured Men: Reported and Unreported Injuries." MPRA Paper No. 14688, Munich Personal RePEc Archive (MPRE), December 2007. |