Work-injury. First-law according to US Social Security Administration.
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | Date |
| Scale | Date |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | labor_workinjury_firstlaw_sspw |
| Category | Labour and labour market |
| Label | Work-injury introduction of first federal law according to US Social Security Administration |
| Related indicators | |
The year of introduction of the first law of any kind by a national government that applied to blue-collar, industrial workers. We assume this is the nature of the variable although a definition is not provided. The data were scraped from the US Social Security Administration's 'Social Security Programs Throughout the World' database ('SSPW') using their 2017 data.
Coding rules
Unknown. The first year according to the SSPW often differs from labor_workinjury_firstlaw as collected in the SFB 1342 A02 project by Breznau and Lanver (2020). For example, Poland is coded as having a first law in 1883. This is a mistake as Poland was divided then and this only applied to the part occupied by Germany and the year is wrong (it was actually 1884); however, this is a fault of the International Labor Organization documentation, which reports this date in its 1935 "Report on Social Insurance" link. There are other discrepancies such as Great Britain had a first law in 1880 not 1897, and many of the former parts of Soviet Russia and satellites get new values because of our coding rules for labor_workinjury_firstlaw.
Bibliographic info
Citation: US Social Security Administration. "Social Security Programs Throughout the World".
Related publications: related publications
Misc
Project manager(s): Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt and Laura Seelkopf
Data release:
- Version 0.001: Initial release
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