A study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute hasfound that 10 years after an injury, the average worker receivedjust 88 percent of the earnings and income an uninjured workerwould have received.

The study, which bases its analysis on aMichigan-based program, looks to find the answers to thesequestions: how the total income that workers receive after aninjury from benefits and earnings compares with what workers couldhave earned without an injury; whether the adequacy measures differby subgroups with different durations of disability; and how manyworkers experience large declines in total income after an injury,and how that compares with what is observed for comparable workerswithout an injury.

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