Work-injury. White-collar first law full coverage.

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Data type	Date
Scale	Date
Value labels	Not applicable
Technical name	labor_workinjury_firstlaw_whitecollar_fullcoverage
Category	Labour and labour market
Label	First full coverage white-collar worker law
Related indicators	Work-injury. First law program type. Work-injury. Introduction year of first federal law.

Year of first ever law that covers all formally employed white-collar workers. The definition is not overly precise, but in laws we often find reference to white-collar or non-manual forms of work. This ideally includes professional, managerial, or administrative work, often characterized by tasks requiring intellectual rather than manual labor. Most often this work involves an office setting and managing information, planning, analyzing, and supporting organizational functions. These workers often hold salaried positions rather than being paid hourly. We code this as covering "all" as long as all enterprises with at least 5 or more employees are covered. This was a somewhat inferential undertaking because data were not always available. We will refine these measures over time and have taken notes by country (see Appendix). Note that coverage can be "full" in this variable, even if certain groups are excluded like women, ethnic or religious groups. We use the definition of a worker at the time of the passing of the law in that country. The logic is that the labor market was segmented, and citizenship was hierarchical in the early stages of work-injury law. Many groups were excluded as 'second class citizens' by law, thus there is no chance for them to be covered. Does not include prisoners or detainees; does not include 'casual workers'. This variable only accounts for de jure coverage.

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Bibliographic info

Citation: Breznau, Nate, and Felix Lanver. 2020. Global Work-Injury Policy Database (GWIP): Project Overview and Codebook. (https://www.socialpolicydynamics.de/f/eb5f6f0e54.pdf) Technical Paper Series 4. Bremen, Germany: Collaborative Research Center SFB 1342 “The Global Dynamics of Social Policy.”

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Project manager(s): Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt and Laura Seelkopf

Data release:

• Version 0.001: Initial release

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