Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs: Improving Employability and Preventing Disability?

Lars Westlie ()
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Lars Westlie: Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Postal: Department of Economics, University of Oslo, P.O Box 1095 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway

No 24/2008, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of five different vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs on the hazard rates into employment, disability and temporarily withdrawals from the labor market for persons who face severe problems in re-entering the labor market, mostly due to medical problems. One of the main findings is that re-education into a new profession is an effective way to improve employability and prevent disability. Work training produces varying results and is more effective the more it resembles a real job. All programs, and in particular re-education, comes with a cost of increased VR duration. Finally, those with the worst initial employment prospects are the ones who benefit most from participation.

Keywords: Vocational rehabilitation; program evaluation; disability; heterogeneous treatment effects; multivariate hazards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C15 C41 I21 J24 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2008-09-01
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