Human Capital of Disabled Workers

项目摘要 该项目将提供迄今为止最全面的证据，说明美国如何 残疾保险制度影响残疾劳动者的人力资本。使用新的 概念框架，我们将开发和应用创新的准实验 新收集的行政数据的方法，以显示残疾 保险制度不仅会导致有健康问题的工人离开劳动力市场， 为了申请福利，但也侵蚀了他们的就业能力，因为他们等待了很长时间 在多级上诉和审查期间的申请处理时间。我们的方法 将对残疾工人的潜在工作能力作出迄今为止最好的估计， 尤其是老年人。这些估计将有助于设计 有效的改革将促进残疾人对劳动力的更大依恋 工人

Project Abstract 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.