A Young Man's Benefit
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860-1929
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Erschienen am 14. Mai 2014
205 Seiten
978-0-7735-6765-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Using cliometric methods and records from six grand-lodge archives, A Young Man''s Benefit rejects the conventional wisdom about friendly societies and sickness insurance, arguing that IOOF lodges were financially sound institutions, were more efficient than commercial insurers, and met a market demand headed by young men who lacked alternatives to market insurance, not older men who had an above-average risk of sickness disability. Emery and Emery show that many young men joined the Odd Fellows for sickness insurance and quit the society once self-insurance - savings - or family insurance - secondary incomes from older children - made it feasible for them. The older men, who valued the social benefits of membership and did not need the sick benefit, gradually became a majority and dismantled the IOOF''s insurance provisions.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Montreal
USA
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9,85 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-6765-8 (9780773567658)
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- Tables
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 The Historical Market for Sickness Insurance and the Institutional History of the IOOF
- 2 The Men Who Were Odd Fellows: the IOOF'S Market for Insurance, 1863-1925
- 3 The IOOF's Benefit System, 1863-1931
- 4 The Financial Soundness of the Lodges, 1890-1929
- 5 Competition in the IOOF'S Insurance Market, 1890-1929
- 6 A Young Man's Benefit, 1856-1929
- 7 Epilogue
- APPENDICES
- A: The Roman Catholic Church and Secret Societies
- B: Arrears for Dues and Suspensions of Membership
- C: IOOF Financial Statistics
- D: Grand Lodge Jurisdictions by Classification Group
- E: Technical Details for the Risk-Loading and Probability-of-Ruin Measures
- F: Technical Details for the Calculation of the Hazard Rates
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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