Work-injury. Replacement rate temporary.

Quick info
Data type	Percentage
Scale	Metric
Value labels	Not applicable
Technical name	labor_workinjury_replacement_rate_temp
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	Wage replacement rate for temporary work-injury incapacity
Related indicators	Work-injury. Replacement rate permanent.

This is the duration of benefits in months that a worker receives if they are unable to work due to an injury or illness sustained at work. This is the percentage of the previous month, year or average recent wage (depending on law wording) that a disabled worker would receive for 26-weeks of incapacity to work when presumed to be temporarily unfit, thus returning for work at some point. This variable is coded based on written laws ideally, but in many cases is in practice a combination of several laws and implementation practices. When we cannot find primary sources, the SSPW documentation is our second preferred choice. When we do not find this answer in one of our first two choices, we then look to secondary literature or internet searches. The coding requires corrections for various features of laws. When there are differing rates we assume single workers but also assume one child. This is partly data driven. Laws are often unspecific about single workers, but often include reference to a dependent child. For high demographic transition countries we assume two children, as one is rare. If there is a range we usually take the average.

Coding rules

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Bibliographic info

Citation: Breznau, Nate, and Felix Lanver. 2020. Global Work-Injury Policy Database (GWIP): Project Overview and Codebook. (https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/f/eb5f6f0e54.pdf) Technical Paper Series 4. Bremen, Germany: Collaborative Research Center SFB 1342 “The Global Dynamics of Social Policy.”

Related publications: related publications

Misc

Project manager(s): Nate Breznau

Data release:

• Version 1: Initial release

Revisions: No revisions yet

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