Tag: workers compensation insurance
Economists have long thought that if employees have disability insurance on the job, they might never migrate over to the government’s disability rolls. A new study finds just the opposite. In Canada, the existence of short-term disability in the private sector increased the number of people going into the national government’s program by 18,300 in…
The brief’s key findings are: Critics claim that the compensation of state-local workers is overly generous. Previous studies have found mixed results. Our analysis finds that compensation of state-local and private sector workers is roughly similar: state-local workers earn 9.5 percent less than comparable private sector workers; but this wage gap is mostly offset by…
