Description: The Economics of Occupational Safety and Health examines occupational risks that influence the safety decisions of a firm including: wage premiums paid to attract workers to risky jobs; insurance payments to injured workers including sick leave and workers' compensation benefits; premiums for workers' compensation insurance; government fines for safety violations and injury-related...

Claims for reimbursement of child support, the reversal of property settlements and compensation can arise when misattributed paternity is discovered. The ethical justifications for such claims seem to be related to the financial cost of bringing up children, the absence of choice about taking on these expenses, the hard work involved in child rearing, the emotional attachments that are formed ...

There are large number of companies that form investment portfolios modern investors have a high level CO2 emissions. In particular, such sectors the economy include oil and gas sector, metallurgy, electricity. For transition these to car-bon-neutral status, it is necessary attract significant funding. One main instruments financing green bonds. The purpose study develop mechanism encourage imp...

Balancing ecological and social outcomes of conservation actions is recognized in global conservation policy but is challenging in practice. Compensation to land owners or users for foregone assets has been proposed by economists as an efficient way to mitigate negative social impacts of human displacement from protected areas. Joint empirical assessments of the conservation and social impacts ...

A SMALL NUMBER of the one and one-half million disabled workers who receive monthly cash benefits under the Social Security Act have also been awarded periodic disability benefits or lump-sum payments under a State or Federal workmen’s compensation program. To meet the definition of disability in the social security program, the persons involved in this benefit overlap must have a severe disabi...

Over the last several years, there has been a nation-wide intensification of policies directed at increasing the level of renewable sources of electricity. These environmental policy changes have occurred against a backdrop of shifting economic regulation in power markets that has fundamentally redefined the mechanisms through which investors in power plants earn revenues. Rather than base paym...

The Victorian Department of Human Services has developed a classification and funding model for non-admitted radiation oncology patients. Agencies were previously funded on an historical cost input basis. For 1996-97, payments were made according to the new Non-admitted Radiation Oncology Classification System and include four key components. Fixed grants are based on Weighted Radiation Therapy...

Introduction Informal patient payments for healthcare are common in the Western Balkans, negatively affecting public health and healthcare.   Aim To identify literature from the Western Balkans on what is known about informal patient payments and bought and brought goods, to examine their effects on healthcare and to determine what actions can be taken to tackle these payments.   Methods After ...

We study mechanism design for a single server setting where jobs require compensation for waiting, while waiting cost is private information to the jobs. With given priors on the private information of jobs, we aim to find a Bayes-Nash incentive compatible mechanism that minimizes the total expected payments to the jobs. Following earlier work in the auction literature, we show that this proble...

This paper reviews a humanistic risk management policy that includes early injury review, steadfast maintenance of the relationship between the hospital and the patient, proactive full disclosure to patients who have been injured because of accidents or medical negligence, and fair compensation for injuries. The financial consequences of this type of policy are not yet known; however, one Veter...