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"In the area of Workers Compensation Insurance schemes, experience rating (ER) is a common incentive tool, in many countries. Premiums paid by firms are experience rated, which should encourage them to improve working conditions and reduce work-related injuries and disabilities. Using sectorial data for industry and construction sectors in 2005, this article provides empirical insights into the influence of ER on work-related health and safety in the context of the French jurisdiction. We examine the relationship between firm premium rate variations and adverse working conditions indicators, controlling for observables, assuming the hypothesis of an asymmetric firm response to premium increases and decreases. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that ER is a lever to improve working conditions and reduce work-related injury rates. Further investigation is needed to understand the influence of ER on firm behavior."

"Working conditions have greatly evolved in recent decades in developed countries. This evolution has been accompanied with the appearance of new forms of work organisation that may be sources of stress and health risk for older workers. As populations are ageing, these issues are particularly worrying in terms of the health, labour force participation and Social Security expenditure.
This paper focuses on the links between quality of employment and the health of older workers, using the Share 2004 survey. Our research is based on two classical models: the Demand-Control model of Karasek and Theorell (1991) and the Effort-Reward Imbalance model of Siegrist (1996), which highlight three main dimensions: Demand that reflects perceived physical pressure and stress due to a heavy work load; Control that refers to decision latitude at work and the possibilities to develop new skills; and Reward that corresponds to the feeling of receiving a correct salary relatively to efforts made, of having prospects for personal progress and receiving deserved recognition. These models also take into account the notion of support in difficult situations at work and the feeling of job security.
Our estimations show that the health status of older workers is related to these factors. Fairly low demand levels and a good level of reward are associated with a good health status, for both men and women. Control only influences the health status of women. Lastly, the results reveal the importance on health of a lack of support at work and the feeling of job insecurity; regardless of gender; these two factors are particularly related to the risk of depression. Thus health status and working conditions are important determinants of the labour force participation of older workers."