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。我们将利用一个新的概念框架，开发并应用创新的准实验方法来处理新收集的行政数据，以展示残疾保险制度如何不仅诱导有健康问题的工人离开劳动力大军申请福利，而且在他们在多个层次的上诉和审查期间等待较长的申请处理时间时，侵蚀他们的就业能力。我们的方法将对残疾工人的总体潜在工作能力，特别是老年工人的潜在工作能力做出迄今最好的估计。这些估计将有助于设计有效的改革，促进残疾工人更大的劳动力依存度。

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.