Unemployment. Introduction year of first federal law.
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | Date |
| Scale | Date |
| Value labels | Not Applicable |
| Technical name | labor_unemp_firstlaw |
| Category | Unemployment |
| Label | Unemployment insurance introduction of first federal law |
| Related indicators | |
The year of introduction of the first unemployment insurance by a national government that applied to all blue-collar, industrial workers (e.g., miners, railroad workers).
Coding rules
Missing values indicate that the country has not adopted national unemployment insurance legislation.
Bibliographic info
Citation: still waiting on technical paper
Related publications: Obinger, Herbert, and Carina Schmitt. 2019. “Total War and the Emergence of Unemployment Insurance in Western Countries.” Journal of European Public Policy 0(0):1–23. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2019.1696388.
Misc
Project manager(s): Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt and Laura Seelkopf
Data release: Beta 1.0
Revisions: revisions
Sources
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