Workingmen's Insurance in EuropeCharities Publication Committee, 1910 - 477 pages |
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accident insurance Accident Insurance Fund addition age and invalidity amount ance annual associations of employers Austria average Belgium Britain burial Caisse cent claims classes commission compulsory insurance contributions cost countries crowns death December 31 Denmark disbursements district employers and employes entirely establishment Factory francs friendly societies funeral benefits Germany granted Guild guilders incapacity income increase indemnity industrial accidents injured insurance companies insurance institutions insurance law invalidity insurance invalidity pension Kronen labor legislation liability lire Marks medical treatment membership ment mutual associations Norway number of accidents old age annuities old age pensions organizations paid payable payments period permanent disability persons ployers ployes premiums present private companies rates receive result sick benefits sickness insurance societies sickness societies subsidy subvention Sweden Switzerland TABLE tion total number trade unions unemployment unemployment insurance Voluntary insurance weeks workingmen workingmen's insurance workmen yearly wages
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