Workers' compensation: coverage, benefits, and costs, 1985

The 84.3 million workers protected by workers' compensation laws in 1985 represented 87 percent of all wage and salary workers in that year. Both the amount of benefits paid to workers and the cost of the program to employers rose substantially from 1984 to 1985. Benefit payments totaled $22.5 billion-14.1 percent higher than in 1984 and the largest annual increase since 1978-79. About two-thirds of the payments in 1985 were money payments ($15.1 billion) and the remainder ($7.4 billion) went for medical care for disabled workers. Private insurance companies made nearly three-fifths of these payments and State funds and self-insured employers each paid about one-fifth of the total benefit amount in 1985. For the first time since 1978, the annual growth in employer costs exceeded the growth in workers' benefits, resulting in a slight decrease in the loss ratio for 1984-85. Employer costs were up nearly 17 percent from the previous year, reaching an estimated $29.3 billion. Covered payrolls increased by 7 percent in that same period. Total benefit payments as a percent of payroll also increased noticeably in 1985.     

Tax Expenditures for Local Governments

Foregone revenues of state and local governments have been mostly unreported. This is still a neglected subject in governmental accounting. Such significant amounts can make a difference in the choice between direct and indirect spending, and more budget officers are expected to consider the tax expenditure report as a supplement to budget documents.     

Doubling the estimated value of life: Results using new occupational fatality data

Using a new series of data on occupational fatalities compiled by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the authors reassess value-of-life calculations based on labor market tradeoffs between fatality risks and wages. The new data are less subject to the problems of measurement error that plague previously used measures of risk. They indicate higher risk levels than previously believed and a significantly different composition of risk levels within industries. The more comprehensive risk data yield value-of-life estimates of $5 million or more—at least twice as large as estimates obtained using the Bureau of Labor Statistics risk data employed in previous studies.     

An Early Community-Based Intervention for the Prevention of Substance Abuse and Other Delinquent Behavior

This paper presents the results of an evaluation of an early intervention, risk-reduction strategy versus a standard intervention approach in the treatment of inner-city youth at high risk of adopting a deviant lifestyle. It examines baseline and 1-year follow-up information provided by 408 youth admitted to 2 community-based Baltimore City Youth Bureaus offering counseling services for neighborhood youth referred for delinquent and other problematic behavior. In the study, one of these bureaus served as the experimental intervention clinic and the other as the control, or standard intervention, clinic. Outcome measures involved substance abuse; sexual activity; contact with juvenile authorities; and delinquent activity, including violence-related activity. Regression analyses of outcome measures revealed significant differential results for delinquent activity, which favored the experimental intervention. Relationships between risk/protective factors and outcome are discussed.     

两种分配方式相结合的经济运行

市场化的按劳分配具有四个鲜明特点:劳动计量市场化、分配主体企业化、工资形成市场化、政府对工资的调控宏观化。按生产要素分配必须首先把不同生产要素的不同使用价值抛开,使它们在质上等同,而利率机制在企业调节并实现剩余价值分配中发挥着重要作用。两种分配方式相结合需要有相应的配套工程。     

紧急状态下的公安行政决策

紧急状态下的公安行政决策不具备常规决策的基本条件。在这类决策中 ,决策者应着重考虑“解决问题的可能性”及“事态的急迫性”两个因素。由于决策者面临的决策要素的“初始”状态不同 ,可能选择的决策策略也不同。在公安紧急决策中 ,决策者要根据决策要素的变化随时更改自己的策略选择以求得理性地实现决策目标。     

云南就业问题探索

随着我国经济体制改革力度的加强 ,分流下岗的人数将会扩大 ,就业形势日趋严峻。云南与全国一样 ,面临着人口与资源、人口与发展的矛盾与挑战 ,不仅要对城镇劳动适龄人口的逐步增加及早作出安排 ,对失业下岗人员的就业和再就业妥善安置 ,还要创造广阔的空间 ,容纳农业劳动力向非农产业转移、农村人口向城镇的迁移。因此 ,我们应寻求以降低高失业率为特征的第二次“软着陆” ,尽快实现产业结构调整 ,发展中小城镇 ,实行有控制的劳动用工管理 ,建立和完善社会保障体系     

警察自由裁量权:如何有效地管理?--从警察行政管理的角度分析

在警察的日常执法活动中,警察机关和警察个体拥有较大的自由裁量权.其产生的原因是由执法过程本身的特殊规律所形成的;由警察执法的优先选择性所带来的;由警察面对的大量"违法"事件的性质所决定的.自由裁量权的使用具有如下特点警察行使自由裁量权已对公正执法产生了一定的影响;警察自由裁量权的使用因面临的局势不同而各异;警察处理治安案件比刑事案件更倾向于使用自由裁量权.对警察的自由裁量权实施管理的有效措施强化警察的思想道德教育,切实提高正确使用自由裁量权的能力;树立新的执法观念;促进自由裁量权的合理使用;特别重视警察自由裁量权的控制问题,尽量减小其滥用的可能性.     

建立社区工会组织的实践与探索

伴随计划经济时期“单位体制”的衰落 ,非公有制经济和股份制经济的发展 ,城市社区作用日益重要。建立高效、精干的社区工会组织必能在促进社区经济发展、维护职工权益、建立稳定祥和的社区人际关系方面发挥其不可代替的功能和作用。