Michael Dworsky

How Can Workers' Compensation Systems Promote Occupational Safety and Health?

Stakeholder Views on Policy and Research Priorities

A new report from RAND explores the views of key workers' compensation stakeholders. The study presents challenges and priorities to be addressed in r...

The Impact on Workers' Compensation Insurance Markets of Allowing the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to Expire

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Do Temporary Workers Experience Additional Employment and Earnings Risk After Workplace Injuries?

Do temporary workers face more employment and earnings risk than direct-hire workers? We link administrative workers' compensation claims to earnings ...

Benefits and Earnings Losses for Permanently Disabled Workers in California

Trends Through the Great Recession and Effects of Recent Reforms

Following California's major reforms to the state workers' compensation system, RAND researchers assess trends in earnings loss and permanent partial ...

U.S. Department of Defense Disability Compensation Under a Fitness-For-Duty Evaluation Approach

The joint U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)-Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Integrated Disability Evaluation System is the process by which DoD det...

America's Opioid Ecosystem

How Leveraging System Interactions Can Help Curb Addiction, Overdose, and Other Harms

Patterns and consequences of opioid use are changing dramatically. Researchers provide a nuanced assessment of America's opioid ecosystem, highlightin...

Veterans' Health Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act and Implications of Repeal for the Department of Veterans Affairs

This report describes the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) effects on nonelderly veterans' insurance coverage and demand for Department of Veterans Affai...

Evaluation of the Return-To-Work Fund in California's Workers' Compensation System

Performance to Date and Options for Modification

California's Return-to-Work Supplement Program provides a $5,000 payment to some workers who cannot return to work after a permanently disabling workp...

Veterans' Health Insurance Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act and Implications of Repeal for the Department of Veterans Affairs

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