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Why do temporary workers have higher disability insurance risks than permanent workers?

Koning, Pierre; Muller, Paul; Prudon, Roger - 2022

Workers with fixed-term contracts typically have worse health than workers with permanent contracts. We show that these differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the Netherlands. Using unique administrative data on health...

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Immigrant networks and the take-up of disability programs : evidence from US census data

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2012

This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of residence fixed effects, immigrants residing amidst a large number of co-ethnics are more likely...

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Does delay cause decay? : the effect of administrative decision time on the labor force participation and earnings of disability applicants

Autor, David H.; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen J.; … - 2015

This paper measures the causal effect of time out of the labor force on subsequent employment of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits. Using a unique Social Security Administration workload...

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Protecting working-age people with disabilities : experiences of four industrialized nations

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid growth in program costs; greater awareness that people with impairments are able and willing to...

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Option value and dynamic programming model estimates of social security disability insurance application timing

Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Dynamic modeling of the SSDI application timing decision : the importance of policy variables

Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A European perspective on long‐term unemployment

Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska; Tobsch, Verena; … - 2015

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...

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The growing American health penalty : international trends in the employment of older workers with poor health

Baumberg Geiger, Ben; Böheim, René; Leoni, Thomas - 2018

that those in poor health in the USA have experienced a unique deterioration: they have not only seen a widening gap to the …) signs that the health employment gap shrank. We then examine possible explanations for the development in the USA: we find … no evidence it links to labour market trends, but possible links to the USA's lack of disability benefit reform - which …

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2018

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing lifetime earnings between individuals with different skill endowments and by providing individuals with insurance against lifetime earnings risk. Based on a dynamic life-cycle...

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Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement: evidence from Finland

Yashiro, Naomitsu; Kyyrä, Tomi; Hwang, Hyunjeong; … - 2020

There are two major barriers to increasing employment of older workers. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced by computers and robots. Second, several countries have in place various labour market institutions that...

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