Download or read book Wage Loss Monitoring for Injured Workers in California's Workers' Compensation System written by Stephanie Rennane and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this report present new estimates of wage loss for California's injured workers in 2016-2017 and compare these estimates with trends before, during, and after the Great Recession. They also analyze trends for key subgroups of interest in the workers' compensation system, including analyses by receipt of indemnity benefits, industry, type of injury, and geographic region. Finally, for the first time in this series of reports, the authors are able to analyze outcomes for a constant-maturity sample of workers with permanent disability, through injury dates in 2015; as a result, they present earnings losses for a constant-maturity sample of workers with permanent disability. The authors find that overall wage losses have remained relatively constant through 2017 but are beginning to increase for workers most affected by workplace injury: workers with indemnity payments, cumulative trauma, and permanent disability. Still, the overall gains are modest, and relative earnings remain lower than they were in the years prior to the Great Recession, suggesting that injured workers have not yet experienced the full benefits of the economic expansion.