A study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute has found that 10 years after an injury, the average worker received just 88 percent of the earnings and income an uninjured worker would have received.
The study, which bases its analysis on a Michigan-based program, looks to find the answers to these questions: how the total income that workers receive after an injury from benefits and earnings compares with what workers could have earned without an injury; whether the adequacy measures differ by subgroups with different durations of disability; and how many workers experience large declines in total income after an injury, and how that compares with what is observed for comparable workers without an injury.
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