Universitat Pompeu Fabra & EQUALITAS, Barcelona, Spain.
Centre for Research in Health and Economics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Eur J Health Econ. 2018 Nov;19(8):1111-1128. doi: 10.1007/s10198-018-0960-8. Epub 2018 Feb 17.
Although a number of papers in the literature have shown the employment and wage differences between individuals receiving disability benefits and non-disabled individuals, not much is known about the potential employment and wage losses that disabled individuals suffer before being officially accepted into the disability insurance system (DI). Therefore, in this paper we compare individuals that enter into the DI system due to a progressive deterioration in the health status (ordinary illness) to similar non-disabled individuals. Our aim is to identify the differences in employment and wages between these two groups before disabled individuals are officially accepted into the DI system. We combine matching models and difference-in-difference and we find that the wage (employment) growth patterns of both groups of workers become significantly different three (five) years before entering the DI system. More specifically, our estimates suggest that 1 year before entering the system, there is a difference of 79 Euros/month in the wages of the two groups (8.3% of average wage) as well as a 7.8% point difference in employment probabilities.
尽管文献中有许多论文表明了领取残疾福利的个人与非残疾个人之间的就业和工资差异，但对于残疾个人在正式纳入残疾保险制度 (DI) 之前可能遭受的潜在就业和工资损失知之甚少。因此，在本文中，我们将因健康状况逐渐恶化（普通疾病）而进入 DI 系统的个人与类似的非残疾个人进行了比较。我们的目的是在残疾个人正式纳入 DI 系统之前，确定这两组人之间的就业和工资差异。我们结合匹配模型和差分法，发现两组工人的工资（就业）增长模式在进入 DI 系统前三年（五年）变得明显不同。更具体地说，我们的估计表明，在进入系统前 1 年，两组人的工资差异为每月 79 欧元（平均工资的 8.3%），就业率差异为 7.8 个百分点。
