Twenty-Five Years of Workmen’s Compensation Statistics
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A puiwter of u century ago, the social fiecurity ,~d&n&ration began to assemb7e ba8iC statistics , 011 the operations of State and Pederul zuorkmenqCq ~omyensc&on progrums. Start&g ,with the yea? /939. dota were collected on the amount of benefit.9 ljuid under* eucJk of the separate progru?w hy type of irwurer. During tJLe next decude, o wethodo7ogy zuaa established for estimating covernge of each State program and for obtaining lStc/te nnd national estimates of costs. Beginning in the 1950’s, emphasis ~WM p7uced on developing t)zeamwes of the scope and adequacy of workm~en's com~~ensntion benefits and on measuring inters’fl/te uwintion.8. The fo7lowing urticle, by sum~nrwizing selected statistics for 1939-64, providea (I hn8is for evaluating the accomplbhmen.ts of the Jwogrn~~ during that period.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000