Beer Taxes, Workers' Compensation, and Industrial Injury
- 1 February 1997
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Vol. 79 (1) , 155-160
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003465397556511
Abstract
The apparent effects of beer taxes, workers' compensation rules, and other factors on reported rates of lost work-days due to injury are estimated. The data used are for injury rates for two-digit SIC industries at the state-level pooled over 1975-85. The results indicate that higher beer tax rates are associated with lower rates of injury lost work-days. More generous workers' compensation payments generally are associated with higher reported injury lost work-days. © 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyKeywords
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