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Title: A Socioeconomic Model of Disability: The Interaction of Occupation and Health on Disability
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Heler, Edward |
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A Socioeconomic Model of Disability: The Interaction of Occupation and Health on Disability Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1985 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Disabled Workers; Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Occupations; Research Methodology This research develops a model of employment behavior to explain the labor supply disability responses of impaired persons from the multidimensional perspective of health condition-role performance interaction. The model for this behavior draws from the economic psychological theories of role response, and is based on the human performance paradigm. Labor supply disability is theorized to occur when functional abilities for job task performance cannot fulfill the functional requirements for performance. Proxies for occupation, health, and the occupation-health interaction are entered into the conventional labor supply model of economics. The model is specified using data from the Older Men cohort of the NLS, and from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. The quasi-experimental multiple Time-Series Design is employed to isolate the occupation-health interaction effects on a control (nonimpaired) group and an experimental (impaired) group. The cross-sectional time-series equation is estimated by generalized least squares regression. The model is a valid predictor of labor supply behavior. Explanatory power is increased over the conventional labor supply model by 5.7 to 10.1 percent, and over the conventional health model by 2.0 to 7.8 percent. The occupation-health interaction effect which is observed reduces the labor supply of impaired men by an average 60 percent. The results also indicate that labor supply models which do not include occupation and occupation-health interaction variables may be misspecified. [UMI ADG86-06146] |
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Heler, Edward. A Socioeconomic Model of Disability: The Interaction of Occupation and Health on Disability. Ph.D. Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1985. |