Determinants of Duration on the Disability Rolls and Program Trends

Rupp, Kalman; Scott, Charles G.

doi:10.17848/9780880995665.ch4

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“…In the subsequent three years, more than 380,000 DI beneficiaries were terminated from the program -more than 40 percent of those who had their cases reviewed (Rupp and Scott, 1998) -for no labor market impacts of disability programs. Our study is unique in analyzing the interaction of program liberalization, rising replacement rates, and adverse labor demand conditions in hastening the labor force exit of less-skilled workers, thereby lowering aggregate unemployment.…”

Section: A Clampdown and Liberalizationmentioning

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The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment

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Duggan

2001

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“…7 These changes in the age and impairment distribution of disability recipients have also substantially increased the expected benefit recipiency duration of newer cohorts (Rupp and Scott, 1998 …”

Section: B Changes In the Characteristics Of DI And Ssi Recipientsmentioning

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The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment

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Duggan

2001

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“…Second, the nature of disabilities has shifted somewhat over the last several decades. Specifically, disability beneficiaries in Canada and the U.S. increasingly suffer from health problems such as musculoskeletal and soft tissue problems as well as mental disorders that tend to be more chronic in nature, rather than health problems associated with higher mortality rates and shorter claim duration (Bound and Burkhauser 1999;Campolieti 2002;Rupp and Scott 1998). These two changes in the nature of the disabled population both increase the time horizon over which investments in the skills of the disabled can pay off and increase the fraction of the disabled likely to see improvements in their medical conditions that would allow for a return to the labor market.…”

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The effect of vocational rehabilitation on the employment outcomes of disability insurance beneficiaries: new evidence from Canada

2014

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We estimate the effects of the vocational rehabilitation (VR) program run by the Canada Pension Plan Disability Program using administrative data. Identification relies on "selection on observed variables" plus careful comparison group selection and institutional knowledge regarding sources of conditional variation in participation. We employ several matching and weighting estimators and emphasize flexible conditioning on variables suggested by theory, the institutional setup and the literature. We find modest, and imprecisely estimated, impacts on employment outcomes for men and larger, sometimes statistically significant, impacts for women. A formal sensitivity analysis finds our results are quite robust to lingering selection on unobserved variables.

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“…As we demonstrate, these cross-sectional differences interacted significantly with national shifts in the supply of benefits during the retrenchment and reform periods. In particular, the share of state residents deterred or encouraged to apply for benefits in (Hennessey and Dykacz, 1993) These changes in the age and impairment distribution of disabihty recipients have also substantially increased the expected benefit recipiency duration of newer cohorts (Rupp and Scott, 1998 Katz and Autor, 1999 Diamond and Sheshinski (1995). See also Hausman and Halpem (1986) and Benitez-Silva et al (2000) for theoretical and empirical analyses of the application decision.…”

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