Human Capital of Disabled Workers

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目将提供迄今为止最全面的证据，证明美国残疾保险制度如何影响残疾工人的人力资本。利用新的概念框架，我们将开发并应用创新的准实验方法对新收集的行政数据进行分析，以显示残疾保险制度如何不仅诱使有健康问题的工人离开劳动力队伍以申请福利，而且在多级上诉和审查中等待长时间的申请处理过程中侵蚀了他们的就业能力。我们的方法将产生迄今为止对残疾工人，特别是老年工人潜在工作能力的最佳估计。这些估计将有助于设计有效的改革，提高残疾工人对劳动力的依赖程度。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will produce the most comprehensive evidence to date on how the U.S. disability insurance system affects the human capital of disabled workers. Using a new conceptual framework, we will develop and apply innovative quasi-experimental methods to newly assembled administrative data in order to show how the disability insurance system not only induces workers with health problems to leave the labor force in order to apply for benefits, but also erodes their employability while they wait out long application processing times during multiple levels of appeal and review. Our approach will produce the best estimates to date of the latent work capacity of disabled workers overall, and of older workers specifically. These estimates will be useful for designing effective reforms that would promote greater labor force attachment among disabled workers.