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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Effect on Equilibrium Wage<br />

Workers’compensation is a mandated benefit<br />

When firms hire, adjust wage offered to workers downwards b/c they<br />

realize they must pay benefit<br />

Summers (1989):<br />

If workers value benefits at cost, they bear the full incidence<br />

If they do not value it, has same effect and DWL as a tax<br />

Gruber-Krueger (1991):<br />

85% of WC cost is shifted to workers, no significant employment effect<br />

Fishback-Kantor (1995):<br />

Find 100% shift to workers’wages in initial implementation of prog<br />

Suggests that benefits valued close to cost<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 6: Social Insurance 142 / 207

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