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The Health and Earnings of Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants / John Bound.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bound, John.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2816.
- NBER working paper series no. w2816
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1989.
- Summary:
- Applicants for Social Security Disability Benefits who fail to pass the medical screening form a natural 'control' group for beneficiaries. Data drawn from the 1972 and 1978 surveys of the disabled done for the Social Security Administration show that fewer than 50% of rejected male applicants work. Typical earnings of those that do are less than 50% of median earnings for other men their age. These data cast doubt on recent econometric work which suggests that the disincentive effects of DI have been substantial.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- 1989.
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