OBJECTIVE The overall goal of this research project was to assess ethnic disparities in monetary compensation among construction workers injured on the job through the linkage of medical records and workers' compensation data. METHODS Probabilistic linkage of medical records with workers' compensation claim data. RESULTS In the final multivariable robust regression model, compensation was $...

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...

We show how to construct power indices that respect proportionality between power and weight from average representations of a game. If restricted to account for the lack of power of dummy voters, average representations become coherent measures of voting power, such that the resulting power distributions are proportional to the distribution of weights. Imposing other restrictions may lead to a...