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Workers’ Compensation Insurance and Occupational Injuries
Safety and Health at Work, 2011 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.
Ilsoon Shin +2 more
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The Value of a Statistical Injury: New Evidence from the Swiss Labor Market [PDF]
We study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry x skill-level of the job and capitalizing on the partial panel structure of our data which allows us to ...
Andreas Kuhn, Oliver Ruf
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Additive manufacturing (AM) allows great geometric freedom for lightweight components. As parts are progressively optimized exploiting potentials in AM leading in smaller material cross sections, high pressure solution treating and aging (STA) treatments show an enormous potential for strongly improving material properties.
Mika León Altmann +4 more
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CEO compensation and bank risk Is compensation in banking structured to promote risk taking?
Journal of Monetary Economics, 1995 Abstract This paper examines whether executive compensation in banking is structured to promote risk taking. We find that, on average, bank CEOs receive less cash compensation, are less likely to participate in a stock option plan, hold fewer stock options, and receive a smaller percentage of their total compensation in the form of options and stock ...
Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA ( host institution ) +2 more
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Workers’ Compensation, Wages, and the Risk of Injury [PDF]
, 1988 [Excerpt] In many respects the structures of the workers\u27 compensation and unemployment insurance systems are similar. Each is actually a system of individual state systems. Both are financed by a payroll tax that is imperfectly experience rated. Both
Ehrenberg, Ronald G
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Workers' Compensation Insurance In North America: Lessons for Victoria? [PDF]
, 1996 Among the issues we will consider here are the following. Who carries the underwriting(insurance) risk for workers' compensation benefits? How is workers' compensation insuranceprices, and by whom?
H. Allan Hunt, Robert W. Klein
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.The thermal diffusivity of MgO‐C refractories is highly sensitive to sample preparation and processing procedures. In this article, the effects of coking sequence, machining conditions, structural inhomogeneity, and graphite coating application on measurements using laser flash apparatus are systematically investigated.
Luyao Pan +4 more
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BMC Nephrology, 2019 Background The magnitude of renal function recovery after kidney donation differs in donors with a heterogeneous background. Preoperative assessment of candidates with potentially unfavorable renal functional compensation is critical when baseline kidney
Kazunobu Shinoda +10 more
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New Directions in Compensation Research: Synergies, Risk, and Survival [PDF]
, 1995 We describe and use two theoretical frameworks, the resource-based view of the firm and institutional theory, as lenses for examining three promising areas of compensation research.
Gerhart, Barry A. +2 more
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Do avalanche airbags lead to riskier choices in the backcountry? [PDF]
, 2018 While the effectiveness of airbags for reducing mortality in avalanche involvements has been examined in various studies, the nagging question of whether the added safety benefit might actually lead to increased risk-taking – a phenomenon referred to as ...
Haegeli, Pascal +2 more
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