Tag: workers compensation insurance

Does Private Disability Affect Federal Rolls?

Economists have long thought that if employees have disability insurance on the job, they might never migrate over to the government’s disability rolls. A new study finds just the opposite. In Canada, the existence of short-term disability in the private sector increased the number of people going into the national government’s program by 18,300 in…

American flag flying over government building in city, blue sky and clouds

The brief’s key findings are: Critics claim that the compensation of state-local workers is overly generous. Previous studies have found mixed results. Our analysis finds that compensation of state-local and private sector workers is roughly similar: state-local workers earn 9.5 percent less than comparable private sector workers; but this wage gap is mostly offset by…