This study estimates the earnings losses associated with workplace injuries that lead to permanent partial disability. Using unique administrative data from California, injured workers are matched to their co-workers with similar pre-injury earnings. Earnings loss is estimated as the difference in earnings between these two groups following injury. It is found that earnings losses are large. Mo...

In some German-language contributions to the debate on free will, it is assumed or claimed that determinism not an empirically verifiable thesis. Peter Bieri, for example, thinks one must presuppose in order understand world as a conceivable world. Determinism would then be empirical thesis, but rather condition without which conceivability of cannot thought (Bieri 2001, 15/16). Geert Keil writ...