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A note on the application of the workers' compensation system to agriculture
Author(s) -
Caswell Julie A.,
Davis John U.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
agribusiness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.57
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1520-6297
pISSN - 0742-4477
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6297(199409/10)10:5<401::aid-agr2720100505>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - incentive , compensation (psychology) , workers' compensation , agriculture , farm workers , business , state (computer science) , labour economics , actuarial science , public economics , economics , computer science , microeconomics , psychology , ecology , algorithm , psychoanalysis , biology
State workers' compensation systems provide a form of insurance coverage for workers injured in the course of employment and may provide incentives to employers to protect their workers from injury. Agricultural workers are covered in varying degrees by workers' compensation laws in about three‐quarters of the states. An example from Massachusetts illustrates the effects of design of a workers' compensation system on farmers' costs of participation and incentives to protect farmworkers from safety hazards. ©1994 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.