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Title:
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U.S. Workers Compensation Datasets: 1900-1930
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Description:
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Information
on workers' compensation laws, state labor laws, state political measures,
and a variety of labor market measures. The data include a panel for the
48 states over the period 1900 to 1930. It includes information on workers'
compensation laws, state labor laws, state political measures, and a variety
of labor market measures.
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Data
Format:
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Excel
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Subject:
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T (Labor and
Employment History)
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Geographic Area:
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7 (North America:
United States, New York)
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Time
Period:
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8 (20th Century:
Pre-WWII)
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Publications:
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The data were the basic source for Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor, A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000 and the series of articles cited there. |
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URL
or FTP Address:
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http://w3.arizona.edu/~econ/fishbackdf.html |
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Contact:
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Price Fishback
Economics McClelland Hall 401 University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 USA Phone: 1-520-621-4421 Fax: 1-520-621-8450 E-mail: pfishback@bpa.arizona.edu |
