Procedural Fairness, Return to Work, and the Decision to Dispute in Workers' Compensation

This study investigates how injured workers evaluate the fairness of the workers' compensation claims process and how that evaluation affects the decision to formally dispute their claim. Survey and administrative data are used to test a model where individuals are hypothesized to base their overall impression of the fairness of the process based on dimensions of procedural justice criteria. They are then hypothesized to decide whether to formally dispute the claim based on a combination of procedural fairness concerns and whether or not they returned to work with the same employer. The implications of the results for structuring the workers' compensation claims process are then discussed.     

The theory of household behaviour under rationing

This paper simplifies and extends the theory of household behaviour under rationing, using duality and the concept of ‘virtual’ prices. Slutsky-type equations, decomposing the derivatives of the rationed demand functions into income and substitution effects, are derived, and these derivatives are related to the corresponding derivatives of the unrationed demand functions for finite as well as infinitesimal ration levels. The results imply that the Keynesian demand multiplier is more likely but the Barro Grossman supply multiplier is less likely to exceed unity the further the household is from its unconstrained equilibrium.     

CAPTIVE FINANCE SUBSIDIARIES: OVERVIEW AND SYNTHESIS

A captive finance company is a wholly owned subsidiary whose primary business is to finance the sales of the parent's products and services. Despite the continued growth and long history of captive finance companies, the issue of the economic impact of forming a captive remains controversial. Some view captive finance subsidiaries as unnecessary structures that may actually reduce the value of the firm. Others hold that captives can produce benefits that will increase firm value. The primary purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the finance academic literature and to suggest direction for future research.     

Feminization and professionalization: A review of an emerging literature on the development of accounting in the United Kingdom

This paper analyses the feminization and professionalization experience of accounting in the United Kingdom. Accountancy is involved in an on-going struggle to consolidate its privileged position in society. It is, therefore, particularly sensitive to any process which may threaten this position. Since the position of women in society is a subordinate one, the increasing feminization of accounting may adversely affect this struggle. As a result, complex patriarchal structures evolve to reduce the threat to professionalization that feminization may pose, and also to reduce the contradictions between women's subordinate role in society, and their relatively privileged role in professionally aspiring occupations.