Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws?
研究20世纪初美国工伤赔偿法通过后，雇主是否通过降低工资将新增的工伤赔偿成本转嫁给工人，并发现工会工人的工资抵消幅度较小。
Market responses to legislative reforms often mitigate the expected gains that reformers promise in legislation. Contemporaries hailed workers' compensation as a boon to workers because it raised the amount of postaccident compensation paid to injured workers. Despite the large gains to workers, employers often supported the legislation. Analysis of several wage samples from the early 1900s shows that employers were able to pass a significant part of the added costs of higher postaccident compensation on to some workers in the form of reductions in wages. The size of the wage offsets, however, was smaller for union workers.