Employment Effects of Educational Measures for Work-Injured People

Henning Bach (), Nabanita Datta Gupta and Jan Høgelund ()
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Henning Bach: Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI)
Jan Høgelund: Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI)

No 2657, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Vocational rehabilitation in the form of education is the cornerstone of governmental rehabilitation programs for the work-disabled in many countries. Merging a 2004 Danish survey to register information from the Danish National Board of Industrial Injuries, we assess the employment effects of educational measures for the work-injured, by simultaneously estimating the hazard rate to education and the return to work, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of education. In addition, we allow for any enhanced employment effects of a unique wage subsidy program in Denmark, giving employers a partial wage subsidy for disabled workers’ wages, by distinguishing between education effects of a return to wage-subsidized work versus a return to ordinary work. Unlike previous studies, we find a positive impact of educational measures on the probability of returning to work for the work injured and a stronger effect for a return to wage-subsidized employment compared to a return to ordinary employment.

Keywords: work injury; return to work; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 J24 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2007-03
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