This study examined 1,060 California workers with permanent injuries to identify the factors that influence the propensity to hire an attorney for the purpose of contesting their benefit awards. These factors include (1) educational level, (2) union membership, (3) seriousness of the injury, and (4) availability of additional income sources.…

Analysis of time-series data indicates that a 1% increase in employer's cost of workers' compensation reduced employment for teenagers and young adults by about 1.5%. Unemployment insurance taxes significantly decreased employment of teenagers, but not young adults. (JOW)

Evidence is presented to show that the general goals of greater liberality and greater equity in weekly unemployment benefits would necessitate several changes in the recommended standards and methods of computation. Data from Ohio provide a basis for estimating the benefit-wage fractions necessary for the implementation of President Eisenhower's…

Includes "Introduction" (Hanratty, Mitchell); "Health Insurance and Job Mobility" (Monheit and Cooper; Gruber and Madrian); "Effect of Access to Post-Retirement Health Insurance (HI) on Decision to Retire Early" (Karoly, Rogowski); "Employer-Provided HI and Retirement Behavior" (Gustman, Steinmeier);…