Compensation + benefits
At Work articles
- Driven by data: The promising impact of research on policy (Winter 2012)
- Change is possible: Ontario youth WSIB claim rate declining (Fall 2011)
- Assessing the adequacy of workers’ comp benefits for permanently disabled workers (Spring 2011)
- Looking for good workplace injury stats? Try the emergency department (Spring 2011)
- Relationship trouble: The role of health-care providers in complex workers’ compensation claims (Spring 2011)
- At issue: Income security for persons with disabilities in Canada (Winter 2011)
- What’s new at www.iwh.on.ca (Summer 2010)
- At issue: Comparing the costs of workers’ compensation in California and Canada (Spring 2010)
- Research noted at Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Spring 2010)
- Easy-to-use tool measures benefits and costs of OHS initiatives (Winter 2010)
- In Focus: Community-based research explores impact of job injuries on workers’ lives (Summer 2009)
- IWH briefing explores business cycles and workers’ compensation (Spring 2009)
- Pilot program decreases duration and costs of workers’ comp claims (Winter 2009)
- Disability income security programs are poorly coordinated (Summer 2008)
Issue Briefings
- Trends in no-lost-time claims in Ontario (August 2011)
- The adequacy of workers' compensation benefits (April 2011)
- A patchwork quilt: Income security for Canadians with disabilities (November 2010)
- Workers' compensation in California and Canada (February 2010)
- Workers' compensation and the business cycle (March 2009)
Research highlights
- Changes in physiotherapy use for MSDs highlight inequality of access (2011)
- Work absenteeism and recurrent neck pain (2011)
- Examining OSH and workers’ compensation in non-profit organizations (2010)
- Why some injured workers don’t return to work as expected (2010)
- Vulnerable workers more likely to receive no income for work-related absence (2009)
- How injured and ill workers receive expedited care (2008)
- Decline in lost-time claims is linked to drop in hazardous jobs (2007)
- Study finds hospital costs for injured sawmill workers (2007)
- Depression, poor physical health increase injured workers' disability days (2006)
- Soft-tissue injuries are associated with increased health-care visits (2006)
Working papers
Current projects
- Compensation claim duration under three legislations (#2115)
- B.C. workers’ compensation benefits after Bill 49 (#418)
- Effects of the compensation system on workers’ lives (#428)
- Examining repeat workers' compensation claims (#1195)
- Improving vocational rehabilitation programs (#2140)
- Injured immigrant workers’ experiences (#273)
- The adequacy and equity of workers' compensation benefits (#2150)
- The effects of experience rating (#2135)
- Understanding long-term compensation claims (#327)
- Understanding the recurrence of work absence (#341)
- Why is the number of long-duration claims increasing? (#2145)
Journal articles
Comparing the risk factors associated with serious versus and less serious work-related injuries in Ontario between 1991 and 2006. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2012;55:84-91. Abstract
Understanding changes over time in workers' compensation claim rates using time series analytical techniques. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2011;68(11):837-41. Abstract
Changes in Physiotherapy Utilization in One Workforce: Implications for Accessibility among Canadian Working-Age Adults. Healthcare Policy. 2011;6(3):93-108. Abstract
Trends in the health care use and expenditures associated with no-lost-time claims in Ontario: 1991 to 2006. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2011;53(2):211-7. Abstract
The course of work absenteeism involving neck pain. A cohort study of Ontario lost-time claimants. Spine. 2011;36(12):977-82. Abstract
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