ECONOMIC WELL BEING AND EMPLOYMENT BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING ONSET OF A DISABILITY

从1989年到1990年， 1993年，由于认识到许多残疾人工作 而那些有收入的人比那些依赖转移支付的人生活得更好， 提高了对影响个人工作的因素的兴趣 和经济福利。尽管如此 虽然兴趣很高，但迄今为止，只有一小部分研究集中在 这一话题这个建议将描述个人的各种途径， 残疾人在健康状况出现后采取的措施， 调查影响这些决定的因素。这些目标将 通过适用与残疾无关的广泛的残疾定义， 发病后的行为，如减少工作或领取福利;通过使用 这个定义描述了人们的整个结果分布， 残疾人，不仅仅是普通人的经历， 人口;通过将分析扩展到多期数据， 残疾发生前后的关键过渡年; 比较美国残疾人的结果， 德国的结果;通过模拟 决定申请美国最重要的一项残疾 转移方案-社会保障残疾保险;以及 模拟残疾政策变化的后果， 这些结构模型的结果。

The explosive growth in the disability benefit rolls between 1989 and 1993, coupled with the recognition that many people with disabilities work and that those who do are better off than those who depend on transfers, has heightened interest in the factors that influence an individual's work and economic well-being following the onset of a disability. Despite this heightened interest, to date only a small body of research has focused on this topic. This proposal will describe the various paths that individuals with disabilities take following the onset of a health condition and investigate the factors that influence these decisions. These goals will be accomplished by applying a broad definition of disability unrelated to post-onset behaviors such as reduced work or benefit receipt; by using this definition to describe the entire distribution of outcomes for people with disabilities, not just the experiences of the average member of the population; by expanding the analysis to multi-period data to capture the critical transition years before and after the onset of a disability; by comparing the outcomes for individuals with disabilities in the United States with outcomes for their counterparts in Germany; by modeling the decision to apply for the single most important United States disability transfer program-Social Security Disability Insurance (DI); and by simulating the consequences of changes in disability policy using the results of these structural models.