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: 9780226251639

ISBN-10: 0226251632

ISBN-13: 9780226251639

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 and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early Progressive Movement. Adopted in most states between 1910 and 1920, workers' compensation laws have been paving seen as the way for social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and eventually the broad network of social welfare programs we have today. In this highly original and persuasive work, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor challenge widespread historical perceptions, arguing that, rather than being an early progressive victory, workers' compensation succeeded because all relevant parties—labor…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 324
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Introduction: Why Study the Origins of Workers’ Compensation?



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