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‘For the workers but without the workers’: industrial accident management under the Franco dictatorship (1939-1966)
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In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries as mentioned in this paper, within the framework of the most recent historiographical these...Abstract:
In the first decades of this century, Spain still has a high industrial accident rate compared with other Western European countries. Within the framework of the most recent historiographical these...read more
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La siniestralidad laboral en España, 1900-2010: un relato entre lo evidente y lo prioritario
TL;DR: Agarre et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the evolucion of the siniestralidad laboral in Espana durante el siglo XX, with the aim of construccioning a serie of accidentes of trabajo.
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Wage inequality and economic growth. A reassessment of the effects of Francoist developmentalism on income distribution in Spain
TL;DR: The relationship between economic development and inequality has been closely examined by researchers as mentioned in this paper , with regard to the period of growth that followed the approval of the Stabilisation Plan during the Franco dictatorship (1959-1973).
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Wage inequality and economic growth. A reassessment of the effects of Francoist developmentalism on income distribution in Spain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effects of this growth cycle by examining the behaviour of wages in the most dynamic sector of the Spanish economy, industry, by using the wage survey compiled by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística, and show how despite explosive growth, the developmentalist model and the peculiar institutional framework built within the Franco dictatorship contributed to increasing wage dispersion and income inequality in most industrial sectors.
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A prelude to the welfare state
TL;DR: Workers' compensation was arguably the first widespread social insurance program in the United States and the most successful form of labor legislation to emerge from the early Progressive Movement Adopted in most states between 1910 and 1920, workers' compensation laws have been paving seen as the way for social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, and eventually the broad network of social welfare programs we have today.
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The durable experiment: State insurance of workers' compensation risk in the early twentieth century
Price V. Fishback,Shawn Kantor +1 more
TL;DR: In the early 1910s state governments debated the private versus public underwriting of workers' compensation risk as discussed by the authors, and the choices they made established the existing system today and set the stage for later debates over the government's underwritten of unemployment, health, and disability risks.
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Competition and collaboration between public and private sectors: the historical construction of the Spanish hospital system, 1942–86
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the creation of the Spanish hospital system during Franco's dictatorship and the transition to democracy, revealing how the maintenance of a regressive tax system, the use of health policy as political propaganda, and disputes within the political elite of the dictatorship led to an inadequate and fragmented public hospital system, which had to collaborate with the private hospital system.
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Incentives that saved lives: Government regulation of accident insurance associations in Germany, 1884-1914
Timothy W. Guinnane,Jochen Streb +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the failure to stem the growth of industrial accidents to faulty incentives built into the 1884 legislation and show that even the flawed tools available to the insurance groups were powerful, and that more consistent use would have reduced industrial accidents earlier and more extensively.
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The political economy of workers' compensation benefit levels, 1910-1930
Price V. Fishback,Shawn Kantor +1 more
TL;DR: This article conducted an empirical analysis of the workers' compensation benefit parameters that emerged from the political process and found that employers in high-accident risk industries succeeded in securing relatively lower benefits, while those in high wage industries succeeded to keep benefit levels in check.