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J Policy Anal Manage. 2014 Summer;33(3):623-48. doi: 10.1002/pam.21763.
We use data from a social experiment to estimate the impact of a rehabilitation and counseling program on the labor market activity of newly entitled Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) beneficiaries. Our results indicate that the program led to a 4.6 percentage point increase in the receipt of employment services within the first year following random assignment and a 5.1 percentage point increase in participation in the Social Security Administration's Ticket to Work program within the first three years following random assignment. The program led to a 5.3 percentage point increase, or almost 50 percent increase, in employment, and an $831 increase in annual earnings in the second calendar year after the calendar year of random assignment. The employment and earnings impacts are smaller and not statistically significant in the third calendar year following random assignment, and we describe SSDI rules that are consistent with this finding. Our findings indicate that disability reform proposals focusing on restoring the work capacity of people with disabilities can increase the disability employment rate.
我们利用一项社会实验的数据，来估计康复和咨询计划对新获得社会保障残疾保险（SSDI）福利的人群的劳动力市场活动的影响。研究结果表明，该计划在随机分配后的第一年导致接受就业服务的人数增加了 4.6 个百分点，在随机分配后的头三年参加社会保障管理局的“工作门票”计划的人数增加了 5.1 个百分点。该计划导致就业人数增加了 5.3 个百分点，即增加了近 50%，在随机分配后的第二年，年收入增加了 831 美元。在随机分配后的第三年，就业和收入的影响较小，且不具有统计学意义，我们还描述了符合这一发现的 SSDI 规则。我们的研究结果表明，关注恢复残疾人士工作能力的残疾改革提案可以提高残疾人士的就业率。
