Job loss and disability insurance

Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2013.08.004

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“…Moreover, the estimated elasticity of employment hazard with respect to the benefit is small (-0.3). Analyzing the impact of job loss on disability insurance, one finding is that job loss doubles the risk of permanent disability for men in Norway and contributes to about one quarter of new claims in disability insurance [16]. The effects of rehabilitation programs are analyzed in the context of sick leave episodes.…”

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Long-term sick leave and the impact of a graded return-to-work program: evidence from Germany

2015

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The implementation of a graded return-to-work (RTW) program to reintegrate the long-term sick started in Germany in 1971 and has been manifested in the Social Code Book V since 1989. Based on a return plan by the physician and the insured, participants increase their working hours slowly over a specified period of time. As participants are still classified as incapable of working they still receive sick leave benefits. Using claims data from the Techniker Krankenkasse, the largest German sickness fund, the study aims at identifying participants and analyzing the full return-to-work and the impact of the RTW program. Thereby, we account for socio-economic factors, insurance-based characteristics, and medical and health-related information. We consider a possible selection bias by using individual weights to analyze determinants of length of the sickness absence by applying models for survival analysis (Cox proportional hazard model). As a main result - depending on the central assumption of unconfoundedness - sickness absence is positively related to participation in the RTW program for those with sickness absence longer than 120 days. For mental disorders, our results indicate an even stronger effect. The study results emphasize the need further promotion of this instrument among those insured, physicians and employers, as occupational health management is one key for a successful return-to-work.

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Long-term sick leave and the impact of a graded return-to-work program: evidence from Germany

2015

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“…Many countries also devote significant resources to various rehabilitation programs aimed at securing employment for the disabled; yet so far with limited success. Rising disability insurance rolls have instead become a major concern in many industrialized countries; see Duggan and Imberman (2006), Burkhauser and Daly (2011), and Bratsberg et al (2013).…”

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The impacts of vocational rehabilitation

Markussen¹,

Røed²

2014

Labour Economics

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“…Alternatively, it may reflect that immigrants are overrepresented in jobs that are physically and/or mentally demanding, such that a given health problem become a greater barrier for immigrants than for natives. Existing empirical evidence from Norway has shown that there is a considerable grey area between unemployment and disability, and that disability insurance claims frequently are triggered by job loss (Rege et al, 2009;Bratsberg et al, 2013). The high and rapidly increasing rates of social insurance dependency among immigrants from low-income countries can also to some extent be explained by the fact that these groups on average have higher social insurance replacement ratios, and respond more strongly to these incentives than other immigrants and natives (Bratsberg et al, 2016b).…”

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