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Screening disability insurance applications

Jong, Philip R. de; Lindeboom, Maarten; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large …-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed … absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening …

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Worker adaptation and workplace accommodations after the onset of an illness

Høgelund, Jan; Holm, Anders - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-18

Workers who become work-incapacitated may try to change employer or stay with their current employer in an accommodated job. We study the effect of these strategies on sick-listed workers' employment durations. We use survey and register data of 809 workers. We simultaneously estimate the...

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International Comparisons of Work Disability

Banks, James W.; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van … - 2021

Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions … lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences remain … response scales. Results suggest that more than half of the difference between the rates of self-reported work disability in …

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Management and Employee Agreement on Reports of Organizational Policies and Practices Important in Return to Work Following Carpal Tunnel Surgery

Amick, Benjamin C.; Hunt, H. Allan; Katz, Jeffrey N.; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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Accommodating Employees with Disabilities : The Role of Flexible Employment Schemes in Europe

Giovanis, Eleftherios - 2019

Over the past 30 years, the workplace has witnessed significant changes. The fast growth in the use of information technology, changes in working hours and agreements radically changed the nature of job. One such change is the flexible employment schemes, which can provide alternatives for...

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Labor Markets, Rationality, and Workers with Disabilities

Stein, Michael Ashley - 2000

Empirical studies of post-ADA employment effects foreground a phenomenon that is puzzling. Although analyses suggest that employing workers with disabilities can be cost effective, and despite a burgeoning economy in which the unemployment rate for most categories of workers has plummeted,...

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Self-Employment among People with Disabilities : Evidence from the Current Population Survey

Gouskova, Elena - 2012

Using data from the Current Population Survey, we study self-employment among people with work limitations in the US. With controls for a rich set of covariates and selection into the labor force, self-employment rates are found to be higher among workers with limitations compared to workers...

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Disability and Work

Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena Nozal, Ana; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2010

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

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Self-Employment Among People with Work Limitations and Disabilities in the US, 1988-2009

Gouskova, Elena - 2012

This paper examines self-employment rates among workers with work limitations and disabilities in the US. Using data from the Current Population Survey, we show that, during the 1989-2009 period, those with work limitations were more likely to be self-employed in unincorporated businesses than...

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The Labor Market Experience of Workers with Disabilities: The ADA and Beyond

Hotchkiss, Julie L. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

This book focuses on the labor market provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). It provides a comprehensive analysis of the current labor market experience of American workers with disabilities and an assessment of the impact the ADA has had on that experience.

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