Brief CV

Current Research Interests

Mike's current research includes studying the effects of different health care providers on the duration of workers' compensation back claims, as well as the cost-effectiveness of treatment.  He is also studying the effect of disability on labour force participation rates. Mike has also received a Social Science and Humanities Research Council grant for 2003-2004 to study the duration of workers' compensation and post-injury employment spells.

Recent Publications

Unions and the Duration of Workers' Compensation Claims in Canada, Industrial Relations, forthcoming.

Strike Incidence and Strike Duration: Some New Evidence from Ontario, with Doug Hyatt and Robert Hebdon, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, forthcoming.

"The Effects of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment Transitions: 1993-1999", with Tony Fang and Morley Gunderson, Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

"How Minimum Wages Affect Schooling-Employment Outcomes in Canada, 1993-1999", with Tony Fang and Morley Gunderson, Journal of Labor Research, forthcoming.

"The Effects of Accommodations on the Duration of Post-Injury Employment Spells", Journal of Labor Research, forthcoming.

"Disability Benefits and Labor Supply: Some Additional Evidence," Journal of Labor Economics (2004), 22: 863-889.

"The Correlates of Job Accommodations for Workers Reentering the Labor Force," Industrial Relations (2004), 43: 546-572.

"The Recurrence of Occupational Injuries: Estimates from a Zero Inflated Count Model," Applied Economics Letters (2002), 9:405-432.

"Disability and the Labour Force Participation of Older Men in Canada," Labour Economics (2002), 9: 405-432.

"Moral Hazard and Disability Insurance: On the Incidence of Hard-to-Diagnose Conditions in the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan Disability Program," Canadian Public Policy (2001), 28: 419-442

"Recurrence in Workers' Compensation Claims: Estimates from a Multiple Spell Hazard Model," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2001), 23: 75-94.

"Disability Insurance and the Labour Force Participation of Older Men and Women in Canada," Canadian Public Policy (2001), 27: 179-194.

"Bayesian Estimation and Smoothing of the Baseline Hazard in Discrete Time Hazard Models," Review of Economics and Statistics (2000), 82(4): 685-694.

"Multiple State Hazard Models and Workers' Compensation Claims: An Examination of Workers' Compensation Data from Ontario," Accident Analysis and Prevention (2001), 33(2): 197-202.

"The Canada/Quebec Pensions Plan Disability Program and the Labor Force Participation of Older Men,"  Economics Letters (2001), 70(3): 421-426.

"Bayesian Semiparametric Estimation of Duration Models: An Application of the Dirichlet Process Prior," Journal of Applied Econometrics, (2001), 16: 1-22.

"Disability Expenditures in Canada 1970-1996: Trends, Reforms Efforts and a Path for the Future," with John Lavis, Canadian Public Policy, (2000), 26: 241-264.

"The Silent Payer Speaks: Workers' Compensation Systems and Canadian Physicians," with John Lavis, Canadian Medical Association Journal (2000), 162(8): 1152-1153.

"Workers' Compensation Benefits and Claim Duration: Some Canadian Evidence," Applied Economics Letters (1999), 6: 513-517.

Courses Taught at the CIRHR

IRE 3002/3003/3005/3006 Research Seminars and Workshops for PhDs