Workers’ Compensation Insurance and Occupational Injuries
Objectives: Although compensation for occupational injuries and diseases is guaranteed in almost all nations, countries vary greatly with respect to how they organize workers’ compensation systems. In this paper, we focus on three aspects of workers’ compensation insurance in Organization for Econom...
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| description | Objectives: Although compensation for occupational injuries and diseases is guaranteed in almost all nations, countries vary greatly with respect to how they organize workers’ compensation systems. In this paper, we focus on three aspects of workers’ compensation insurance in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries - types of systems, employers’ funding mechanisms, and coverage for injured workers - and their impacts on the actual frequencies of occupational injuries and diseases.
Methods: We estimated a panel data fixed effect model with cross-country OECD and International Labor Organization data. We controlled for country fixed effects, relevant aggregate variables, and dummy variables representing the occupational accidents data source.
Results: First, the use of a private insurance system is found to lower the occupational accidents. Second, the use of risk-based pricing for the payment of employer raises the occupational injuries and diseases. Finally, the wider the coverage of injured workers is, the less frequent the workplace accidents are.
Conclusion: Private insurance system, fixed flat rate employers’ funding mechanism, and higher coverage of compensation scheme are significantly and positively correlated with lower level of occupational accidents compared with the public insurance system, risk-based funding system, and lower coverage of compensation scheme. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e8af8b8a9dc54e45adccfe2cebf0be852023-09-02T09:26:56ZengElsevierSafety and Health at Work2093-79112011-06-012214815710.5491/SHAW.2011.2.2.148Workers’ Compensation Insurance and Occupational InjuriesIlsoon Shin0Jun-Byoung Oh1Kwan Hyung Yi2School of Economics, Inha UniversitySchool of Economics, Inha UniversityOccupational Safety and Health Research Institute Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Incheon, KoreaObjectives: Although compensation for occupational injuries and diseases is guaranteed in almost all nations, countries vary greatly with respect to how they organize workers’ compensation systems. In this paper, we focus on three aspects of workers’ compensation insurance in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries - types of systems, employers’ funding mechanisms, and coverage for injured workers - and their impacts on the actual frequencies of occupational injuries and diseases. Methods: We estimated a panel data fixed effect model with cross-country OECD and International Labor Organization data. We controlled for country fixed effects, relevant aggregate variables, and dummy variables representing the occupational accidents data source. Results: First, the use of a private insurance system is found to lower the occupational accidents. Second, the use of risk-based pricing for the payment of employer raises the occupational injuries and diseases. Finally, the wider the coverage of injured workers is, the less frequent the workplace accidents are. Conclusion: Private insurance system, fixed flat rate employers’ funding mechanism, and higher coverage of compensation scheme are significantly and positively correlated with lower level of occupational accidents compared with the public insurance system, risk-based funding system, and lower coverage of compensation scheme.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791111220067Workers’ Compensation InsuranceOccupational injuries and diseasesFixed effect model |
| spellingShingle | Ilsoon Shin Jun-Byoung Oh Kwan Hyung Yi Workers’ Compensation Insurance and Occupational Injuries Safety and Health at Work Workers’ Compensation Insurance Occupational injuries and diseases Fixed effect model |
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| title_short | Workers’ Compensation Insurance and Occupational Injuries |
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| topic | Workers’ Compensation Insurance Occupational injuries and diseases Fixed effect model |
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