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Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements.

Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, and Safety under Alternative Insurance Arrangements. By Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, and John F. Burton, Jr. Kalamazoo, Mich.: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001. 457 pp. ISBN 0-88099-218-2, $43.00 (cloth); 088099-217-4, $25.00 (paper).

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