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This paper has been composed within the framework of the’ shifts in Governance’ project. One of the main objectives of this project is to identify shifts from one personal injury compensation system to another (e.g. from public funding to civil law), as well as shifts within a particular compensation system. In that respect a number of countries and various domains of accident law (notably work injury, medical negligence and environmental damage) have been analysed. As far as work injury (industrial accidents and occupational diseases) is concerned, we have considered the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain. Other ‘Shifts in Governance’ papers in this domain have dealt with, respectively, the legal analysis of shifts in governance and a presentation of first empirical findings in these four countries.1
This paper was written during a visiting scholarship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the early Summer of 2005. I would like to thank Prof. T.S. Ulen and Prof. T. Ginsburg for valuable suggestions and support and Prof. M.G. Faure for comments on a first draft of this paper.
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Philipsen, N.J. (2007). Prevention and Compensation of Work Injury in the United States: An Overview of Existing Empirical Evidence. In: Klosse, S., Hartlief, T. (eds) Shifts in Compensating Work-Related Injuries and Diseases. Tort and Insurance Law, vol 20. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-71556-7_5
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