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This is the year of the first law providing insurance against work-related injury. “Insurance” here refers to the common definition, not the legal definition, as providing some form of shared protection against risk. That is why we refer to this as “risk-pooling” not “insurance” in the variable name. This variable indicates the first instance of mandatory social risk pooling. A provident fund, for example, counts as risk-pooling because workers have a shared pool of resources to protect them in case of an accident; again this is only by law and says nothing about the effectiveness or implementation of the law. Simply having a law requiring employer liability is not risk-pooling in our definition, because there is no insurance (fund, insurance policy, etc.) backing up the legal liability. If the first law of any form in a country was a risk-pooling law, then this variable is identical to labor_workinjury_firstlaw. If only a single occupation is covered but the state makes insurance mandatory for the entire single occupation (e.g., railroad workers or miners), then this would also count as the first risk-pooling law.
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|description = This is the year of the first law providing insurance against work-related injury. “Insurance” here refers to the common definition, not the legal definition, as providing some form of shared protection against risk. That is why we refer to this as “risk-pooling” not “insurance” in the variable name. This variable indicates the first instance of mandatory social risk pooling. A provident fund, for example, counts as risk-pooling because workers have a shared pool of resources to protect them in case of an accident; again this is only by law and says nothing about the effectiveness or implementation of the law. Simply having a law requiring employer liability is not risk-pooling in our definition, because there is no insurance (fund, insurance policy, etc.) backing up the legal liability. If the first law of any form in a country was a risk-pooling law, then this variable is identical to labor_workinjury_firstlaw. If only a single occupation is covered but the state makes insurance mandatory for the entire single occupation (e.g., railroad workers or miners), then this would also count as the first risk-pooling law.  
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|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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|relatedpublications = related publications
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|projectmanagers = Nate Breznau
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|datarelease = <ul><li>Version 1: Initial release</li></ul>
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|revisions = No revisions yet
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Latest revision as of 14:19, 30 October 2024

Quick info
Data type Date
Scale Date
Value labels Not applicable
Technical name labor_workinjury_firstins
Category Labour and labour market
Label First work-injury risk-pooling law
Related indicators

This is the year of the first law providing insurance against work-related injury. “Insurance” here refers to the common definition, not the legal definition, as providing some form of shared protection against risk. That is why we refer to this as “risk-pooling” not “insurance” in the variable name. This variable indicates the first instance of mandatory social risk pooling. A provident fund, for example, counts as risk-pooling because workers have a shared pool of resources to protect them in case of an accident; again this is only by law and says nothing about the effectiveness or implementation of the law. Simply having a law requiring employer liability is not risk-pooling in our definition, because there is no insurance (fund, insurance policy, etc.) backing up the legal liability. If the first law of any form in a country was a risk-pooling law, then this variable is identical to labor_workinjury_firstlaw. If only a single occupation is covered but the state makes insurance mandatory for the entire single occupation (e.g., railroad workers or miners), then this would also count as the first risk-pooling law.


Coding rules

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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.”


Related publications: related publications



Misc

Project manager(s): Nate Breznau


Data release:
  • Version 1: Initial release


Revisions: No revisions yet

Sources

sources