The Employers' Costs of Workers' Compensation Insurance: Magnitudes, Determinants, and Public Policy
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- Alan B. Krueger & John F. Burton, Jr., 1989. "The Employers' cost of Workers' Compensation Insurance: Magnitudes, Determinants, and Public Policy," NBER Working Papers 3029, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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