Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws? /
Fishback, Price V.
Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws? / Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1994. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w4947 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w4947. .
December 1994.
Market responses to legislative reforms often mitigate the expected gains that reformers promise in legislation. Contemporaries hailed workers' compensation as a boon to workers because it raised the amount of post-accident compensation paid to injured workers. Despite the large gains to workers, employers often supported the legislation. Analysis of several wage samples from the early 1900s shows that employers were able to pass a significant part of the added costs of higher post-accident compensation onto some workers in the form of reductions in wages. The size of the wage offsets, however, were smaller for union workers.
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Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws? / Price V. Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1994. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w4947 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w4947. .
December 1994.
Market responses to legislative reforms often mitigate the expected gains that reformers promise in legislation. Contemporaries hailed workers' compensation as a boon to workers because it raised the amount of post-accident compensation paid to injured workers. Despite the large gains to workers, employers often supported the legislation. Analysis of several wage samples from the early 1900s shows that employers were able to pass a significant part of the added costs of higher post-accident compensation onto some workers in the form of reductions in wages. The size of the wage offsets, however, were smaller for union workers.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.