Screening Disability Insurance Applications

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The empirical results show that intense screening reduces long-term sickness absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening on work resumption during sickness absenteeism and for self-screening by potential disability insurance app... Mehr ...

Verfasser: de Jong, Philip
Lindeboom, Maarten
van der Klaauw, Bas
Dokumenttyp: doc-type:workingPaper
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Verlag/Hrsg.: Amsterdam and Rotterdam: Tinbergen Institute
Schlagwörter: ddc:330 / J28 / J65 / disability insurance / sickness absenteeism / policy evaluation / self-screening / experiment / Behindertenpolitik / Behinderte Arbeitskräfte / Versicherung / Fehlzeit / Kontrolle / Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse / Niederlande
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/10419/86356

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed to screen applications more intense. The empirical results show that intense screening reduces long-term sickness absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening on work resumption during sickness absenteeism and for self-screening by potential disability insurance applicants. We do not find any spillover effects to the inflow into unemployment insurance. A cost-benefit analysis shows that the costs of the intensified screening are only a small fraction of its benefits.