DID WORKERS PAY FOR THE PASSAGE OF WORKERS COMPENSATION LAWS

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: FISHBACK, PV; KANTOR, SE
• 署名单位: National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-5533
• DOI: 10.2307/2946697
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 713-742
• 关键词: workplace

摘要

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.