Roughly a decade after one of the biggest economic downturns in U.S. history, relative earnings for injured workers in California have increased only modestly and still have not returned to pre-recession levels, according to a new study Rand Corp. released earlier this month.
The study, a third in a series commissioned by the Department of Industrial Relations, looked at earnings losses for workers injured in 2016 and 2017 and compared pre- and post-Great Recession data, including relative earnings, which are wages workers would have earned had they not been hurt on the job.
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