Linking Federal and State Data to Study the Economic Effects of Workplace Injury

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究将使用相关的工人补偿和社会保障管理局数据来确定工作场所伤害和疾病对长期收入的影响，工人补偿和联邦残疾保险计划的收入替代，退出劳动力市场，以及社会保障残疾保险（SSDI）和补充安全收入（SSI）福利的使用。我们还将估计收入损失、领取福利、退出劳动力市场以及使用SSDI/SSI福利的倾向如何受到年龄、性别、身体部位、受伤类型和行业的影响。这项研究将使用加利福尼亚、新墨西哥、俄勒冈、华盛顿和威斯康辛五个州所有领取工人补偿收入福利案件的数据。这项研究将提高我们对职业伤害和疾病的经济影响的理解。它将提供比以前更好的收入损失估计，并将提供受伤之日起长达14年的时间。它还将改进对损失得到弥补程度的估计，不仅提供关于工人补偿福利的资料，而且还提供关于领取社会保障福利和社会保障福利的资料。它将增进我们对受伤对老年工人与年轻工人、女性与男性收入的不同影响的理解。我们还将按行业、公司规模、身体部位和伤害性质估计工作场所伤害和疾病的经济影响。我们将使用国家职业研究议程指定的行业类别。职业伤害和疾病的这些方面本身很重要，但它们也可以帮助决定有针对性的预防和研究活动。关于领取社会保障福利和社会保障福利的信息也将提供一个最具致残性的工作场所伤害和疾病人口的衡量标准，因为这些计划的目标是预计无法长期工作的工人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This study will use linked workers' compensation and Social Security Administration data to determine the impact of workplace injuries and illnesses on long-term earnings, income replacement from workers' compensation and federal disability insurance programs, withdrawal from the labor force, and the use of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. We will also estimate how lost earnings, receipt of benefits, withdrawal from the labor market, and propensity to use SSDI/SSI benefits are affected by age, sex, body part, type of injury, and industry. The study will use data on all cases receiving workers' compensation income benefits in 5 states: California, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. This study will improve our understanding of the economic impacts of occupational injuries and illnesses. It will provide better estimates of lost earnings than previously available and will provide them for a period stretching up to 14 years after the date of injury. It will also provide improved estimates of the degree to which losses are replaced, by providing information not only on workers' compensation benefits but also on the receipt of SSDI and SSI benefits. It will improve our understanding of the differential effects of injuries on the incomes of older compared to younger workers and of women compared to men. We will also estimate the economic impact of workplace injuries and illnesses by industry, by firm size, by part of body, and by nature of injury. We will use the industry categories designated by the National Occupational Research Agenda. These aspects of occupational injuries and illnesses are important of themselves, but they can also help in decisions about targeting prevention and research activities. Information about the receipt of SSDI and SSI benefits will also provide a measure of the population with the most disabling workplace injuries and illnesses, because these programs target workers expected to be unable to work for long periods.