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Beer Taxes, Workers' Compensation, and Industrial Injury

Robert L. Ohsfeldt; Michael A Morrisey

University of Alabama at Birmingham

The Review of Economics and Statistics 1997

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.

DOI
10.1162/003465397556511
Volume
79 (1)
Pages
155-160
Language
en
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