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Economic Issues in Temporary Disability Insurance
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Concept extraction for disability insurance payment evaluation
Automated evaluation of claims for medical and disability insurance benefits poses a difficult challenge that will take years to be solved. The precise wording of insurance rules and the terse language in medical history files make it difficult for humans, let alone computers, to assess insurance …
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Essays on the effects of disability insurance/
I study the effects of disability insurance receipt on the long-term outcomes of children and their families. I use data from the Social Security Administration on children enrolled in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and their family members. In Chapter 1, I estimate the long-term …
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Essays in Economics of Social Security Disability Insurance and Health
… to Medicare in analysis of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI). Specifically, the first chapter addresses the following questions: (1) How does access to Medicare via SSDI enrollment affect the incentive to leave employment and to apply for SSDI? (2) What are the welfare effects of …
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The Social Security Disability Insurance and vocational rehabilitation programs : a study of the time delays
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1986.
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Impact of Personal and Family History of Huntington's Disease on the Decision and Ability to Obtain Life, Long-term Care, and Disability Insurance
… a fear of genetic discrimination, in particular insurance discrimination. The Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act (GINA) prohibits genetic discrimination for health insurance or employment purposes, but does not apply to life, long-term care, or disability insurances. Previous studies …
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Essays on innovation, productivity, and talent allocation
… and labor force participation of Social Security Disability Insurance applicants. Using the RAND Health and Retirement Study panel data, I provide empirical support for the theory that an imperfectly screened disability insurance program encourages individuals who dislike work to save more in the …
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Sex Discrimination in the Insurance Market
… problem. Public interest in the practices of the insurance industry that affect women has developed in recent years. Allegations have been made that many of these practices unfairly discriminate against women in the sale of the insurance product. Critics claim that it is often more difficult for …
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The Impact of Natural Resource Booms on Local Economic Conditions
… extent to which labor force participation and Disability Insurance (DI) are substitutes, since DI becomes more attractive as outside employment options decline. Consistent with evidence from previous studies, my estimates indicate a higher degree of substitutability for current workers. I find …
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Reflections on Disability: Perspectives on South Africa, India and the United States of America
The aim of this paper is to reflect on disability and social protection in three jurisdictions. [...] Section 1 provides an overview of the concept of disability. The background and trend disability has taken from the post-war period, which provided quota systems for the war veterans who were …
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Examining the Progression of Disability Benefits Among Employees in the United States
… database extracted from the UNUM/Provident Life Insurance Company, including all consecutive short-term disability (STD) claims filed with UNUM from January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1996 from claimants who were also insured for long-term disability (LTD) by UNUM. The resulting sample includes …
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An investigation of the variables related to competitive employment and earnings of vocational rehabilitation consumers with blindness or visual impairments
… or visual impairments as a major cause of disability are at an extreme disadvantage to obtain and maintain employment and thus may seek the assistance of vocational rehabilitation counselors. Information on these individuals, encompassing demographics, disability, public support, and …
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Three essays on Brazilian social security policies, education and labor market
… of a public Social Security system that provides disability insurance benefits. This study searches for possible worker incentives to leave the labor force temporarily by comparing workers with the same health. Additionally, this study analyzes the extent to which workers with poor health continue …
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Essays on loss aversion and household portfolio choice
… amount of potential gains, affects households' insurance buying decisions and savings decisions. The first chapter, ""Prospect Theory and Insurance Demand,"" tries to answer the question of why a substantial fraction of households remains uninsured even if classical expected utility theory …
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Essays on Disability and the Labour Market
… consists of three chapters about the effects of disability and disability policy. The second chapter analyzes the variation in labour market outcomes across disabilities by representing disability as a bundle of characteristics. Rich with information on the characteristics of a disabling …
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The Incentive Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Market Outcomes and SSDI/SSI Utilization
… amount of literature on how Unemployment Insurance (UI) affects unemployed workers' job search behavior, there has been no previous study on how the health insurance premium subsidy affects this behavior. To fill the gap in previous studies, this paper analyzes the impact of the …
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Database Marketing Management Strategies for Agricultural Lenders
… most of the respondents were using some form of insurance. Three-fourths of the respondents were using life insurance, while only 21 percent indicated that they did not possess disability insurance. Other services were also analyzed in this study. Only 15 percent of the respondents indicated that …
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Essays in Public Economics and Health Economics
… ongoing project concerning the optimal design of disability insurance, given the health risks faced by individuals.
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Improving the administration of disability grants in South Africa’s social security agency
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Doctor of Management Sciences degree in Public Administration at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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