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Texas Monitor, 3:4 (Winter 1998)

Figure 3

Percentage of Injured Workers Who Were Fired or Laid off
After an Injury, by Geographic Region
(unemployment rates in parentheses)

Map of Texas showing that in North Texas 16% of workers were fired/laid off (3.8% is the unemployment rate); in East Texas 35% were fired/laid off (6.7% is the unemployment rate); in Central Texas, 11% were fired/laid off (3.0% is the unemployment rate); in South Texas, 21% (7.3% is the unemployment rate); and in West Texas, 42% of injured workers were fired or laid off (8.0% is the unemployment rate).

Source: Research and Oversight Council on Workers' Compensation, Survey of Workers Injured in 1996, 1998; and the Texas Workforce Commission Civilian Labor Force Estimates for Metropolitan Statistical Areas, as of May 21, 1998.

Note: Unemployment rates for each region were calculated by taking the average unemployment rate for those metropolitan statistical areas that corresponded to Texas Workers' Compensation Commission field offices.

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