workers’ general level of health and the severity of the injury itself. Although of a smaller
magnitude workers’ compensation benefits positively impact workers’ decisions to file a
claim. With the standard set of controls, a 10 percent rise in the wage replacement rate
expands the likelihood of reporting a time-loss claim for benefits by about 10 percent.
The claim/benefit elasticity falls when family income is included as an explanatory vari-
able and nearly doubles using an instrumented wage replacement rate.
The results of Biddle and Roberts indicate workers have wide latitude in the report-
ing of actual ...
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