Prelude to the Welfare State The Origins of Workers' Compensation

Name: Prelude to the Welfare State The Origins of Workers' Compensation
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ISBN: 9780226249841

ISBN-10: 0226249840

ISBN-13: 9780226249841

Edition: 2000

Authors: Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor

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Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States--before social security, Medicare, or unemployment insurance--and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early progressive movement. In "A Prelude to the Welfare State," Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions by arguing that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because "all" relevant parties--labor and management, insurance companies, lawyers, and legislators--benefited from the ruling. Rigorous and convincing, "A Prelude to the Welfare State "is a major reappraisal of the…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.89" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English




Framing the Issues



Compensation for Accidents before Workers’ Compensation



The Economic Impact of the Switch to Workers’ Compensation



The Timing of Workers’ Compensation’s Enactment in the United States



The Political Process of Adopting Workers’ Compensation



The Fractious Disputes over State Insurance



The Battles over Benefit Levels, 1910-1930



Epilogue: Lessons from the Origins of Workers’ Compensation



Accident Reporting under the Negligence System



Workers’ Compensation Benefits and the Construction of the Expected Benefits Variable



Measuring the Change in Accident Benefits from Negligence Liability to Workers’ Compensation



Econometric Analysis Used to Estimate Wage Offsets



A Model of Insurance Consumption and Saving behavior



An Econometric Analysis of the Effect of Increased Expected Benefits on Saving and Insurance behavior



Employers’ Liability Laws



Discrete-Time Hazard Analysis of the Timing of Adoption across the United States



Data Sources and Descriptions of Quantitative Variables



State versus Private Insurance: An Ordered-Probit Analysis of the State’s Choice



A Quantitative Analysis of Workers’ Compensation Benefit Levels


References


Index