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- Title
Did workers pay for the passage of workers' compensation laws?
- Authors
Fishback, Price V.; Kantor, Shawn Everett
- Abstract
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 postaccident 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 postaccident compensation on to some workers in the form of reductions in wages The size of the wage offsets, however, was smaller for union workers
- Subjects
WORKERS' compensation; WORKERS' compensation laws; PENSIONS; WAGES; LABOR unions; EMPLOYEES; COMPENSATION (Law)
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995, Vol 110, Issue 3, p713
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2946697