Is Workers' Compensation a Substitute for Unemployment Insurance? |
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Authors: | Fortin Bernard Lanoie Paul Laporte Christine |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Economics and CRÉFA, Université, Laval, Quebec, Canada, G1K 7P4;(2) École des Hautes Études Commerciales and CIRANO, Montreal, Canada, H3T 2A7;(3) Human Resources Development, Canada |
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Abstract: | This paper examines how the Workers' Compensation (WC) and Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs interact to influence the duration of claims due to workplace accidents. We use longitudinal WC administrative micro-data on more than 30,000 workers in the Canadian construction industry for the period 1976–1986. For the estimations, we use the Meyer (1990) semi-parametric proportional hazard model. Our results show, in particular, that a reduction in the UI replacement ratio is associated with an increase in the duration of claims due to severe accidents that are difficult to diagnose. Moreover, the duration of spells on WC is much higher when an accident occurs in December, a month which corresponds to the beginning of the lay-off season in the construction sector. This result is consistent with the fact that WC benefits are more generous than UI benefits in Canada. |
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Keywords: | moral hazard unemployment insurance workers' compensation risk uncertainty |
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