The Durable Experiment
State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4873211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Price Fishback (National Bureau of Economic Research), Price V Fishback, Shawn Everett Kantor, Shawn Kantor (National Bureau of Economic Research) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 809-836 |
| Publication date | 1996-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700017484 |
| OpenAlex | W2136723867 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 14 |
In the early 1910s state governments debated the private versus public underwriting of workers' compensation risk. The choices they made established the existing system today and set the stage for later debates over the government's underwriting of unemployment, health, and disability risks. This article offers both quantitative and case-study analyses of states' original choices between public and private insurance. Monopoly state funds were adopted in some states because of an unusual combination of strong unions and weak insurance and agricultural interests. In other states, the emergence of progressive political coalitions played the decisive role
Actuarial science · Business · Compensation (psychology) · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Insurance policy · Market economy · Medicaid · Monopoly · Political science · Politics · Private insurance · Public economics · State (computer science) · Underwriting · Unemployment · Healthcare Policy and Management · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law
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Radical Heritage
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,54 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |