title: The effect of vocational rehabilitation and work incentives on helping the disabled-worker beneficiary back to work.
abstract: This article is the second in a series of articles that use data from the New Beneficiary Followup survey to analyze the work efforts of the Social Security Administration's Disability Insurance beneficiaries. Survival analysis techniques are used to determine the effect of vocational rehabilitation efforts and work incentive program provisions on actual work outcomes. The findings indicate that the demographic variables of age, gender, race, education, and marital status affect the tendency to return to work in the expected way. The results suggest a possible disincentive effect may be built into certain work incentive provisions of the program. The encouraging news is that the vocational rehabilitation efforts seem to have a positive effect on the tendency to return to work. Physical therapy, vocational training, general education, and job placement efforts all seem to increase the tendency to go back to work.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Hennessey
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Muller
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D003625:Data Collection; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000145:classification / Q000534:rehabilitation* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011159:Population Surveillance; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012943:Social Security / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016019:Survival Analysis; D014481:United States