Post-accident earning and benefits adequacy and equity

事故后收入和福利的充足性和公平性

• 批准号: 6725108
• 负责人: EMILE TOMPA
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-01 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6725108
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; data collection methodology /evaluation; disability insurance; disabling disease; extended care; gender difference; geographic site; health insurance; human subject; income maintenance; injury; mathematical model; occupational disease /disorder; occupational hazard; quality of life; rehabilitation; socioeconomics; vocational rehabilitation

DESCRIPTION: The long-term objective of this project is to investigate the social and economic consequences of work- related injury and illness. The project has two components. Part 1 will focus on two cohorts of individuals sustaining a permanent impairment arising from a work-related accident- one cohort receiving benefits from an impairment based benefits program and the other form a loss-of-earnings-capacity based benefits program. There are two related objectives of this section of the research plan: 1) to better understand the adequacy and equity of two markedly different wage-loss compensation programs for individuals sustaining a permanent impairment; and 2) to determine whether there are significant differences In labor-market reentry and earnings experiences post-accident between individuals receiving benefits from one of the two programs. Part 2 will focus on individuals experiencing a temporary work disability arising from a work-related accident and will investigate the long-term labour-market earnings of these individuals. The objectives of this research agenda are: 1) to determine if there are long-term earnings losses for individuals experiencing only a temporary work disability, and 2) to determine what factors may modify or magnify the impact of temporary disability on long-term earnings. The analysis will be undertaken on a large longitudinal data set that identifies income sources and amounts for individuals and their families over an 18 year time period from 1982 to 1999. Two analytical methodologies will be employed. The first is a matched event/control cohort design in which individuals who experience the event of interest (permanent impairment/short-term disability) will be matched with up to 10 controls (individuals with similar characteristics who do not experience work disability). Analyses of the various questions will be undertaken by comparing the event group with their control counterparts. The second methodology is econometric modelling of the factors that determine labour-market earnings of individuals. The modelling will control for socio-demographic and economic characteristics at the individual level that may bear on labour-market earnings in addition to the work-disability characteristics (extent of impairment, duration of short-term disability spell), the type of benefits program (relevant only for the two permanent disability programs), and unobserved individual-level fixed effects. This research will be invaluable to the development of workers' compensation policy in jurisdictions across North America. The research in Part 1 will inform policy on the relative merits of two approaches to compensating wage losses arising from permanent impairment. The research in Part 2 will provide valuable insight into whether it is appropriate to treat temporary disability as a short-term phenomenon.

描述：该项目的长期目标是调查与工作相关伤害和疾病的社会和经济后果。该项目有两个组件。第1部分将重点关注由与工作相关的事故引起的长期损害的两个人群 - 一个同龄人从基于损害的福利计划中获得福利，而另一个人则是基于丧失的福利福利计划。研究计划的这一部分有两个相关的目标：1）更好地了解两个明显不同的减损工资赔偿计划的适当性和公平性，以实现永久性损害的个人； 2）确定劳动力市场的再入和收益经验是否存在显着差异，并在从两个计划之一中获得福利的个人之间存在差异。第2部分将着重于由于与工作有关的事故引起的临时工作障碍的个人，并将调查这些人的长期劳动市场收入。 这项研究议程的目标是：1）确定仅经历临时工作障碍的个人是否有长期收入损失，以及2）确定哪些因素可以改变或放大临时残疾对长期收入的影响。 该分析将对大型纵向数据集进行，该数据集在1982年至1999年的18年期间确定个人及其家人的收入来源和金额。将采用两种分析方法。第一个是匹配的事件/控制队列设计，在该设计中，经历感兴趣的事件的个人（永久性障碍/短期残疾）将与多达10个控件（具有类似特征的人没有工作障碍的人）相匹配。将事件组与他们的对手进行比较，将对各种问题进行分析。第二种方法是对决定个人劳动市场收入的因素的计量经济模型。该建模还将控制个人层面上的社会人口统计学和经济特征，除了工作可行性特征（损害的程度，短期残疾法术的范围）外，这可能会在劳动市场收入上受到影响。 （仅与两个永久性残疾计划有关）和未观察到的个人级固定效果。 这项研究对于制定北美司法管辖区的工人赔偿政策将是无价的。第1部分的研究将为政策提供有关两种补偿永久性损害造成的工资损失的相对优点的政策。第2部分中的研究将提供宝贵的见解，以了解是否将临时残疾视为短期现象是否适合。