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  • Labour market outcomes for people with a spinal cord injury

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    Rowell, David
    Connelly, Luke
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    Rowell, David
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    The consequences of spinalcordinjury are profound and extend well beyond the immediate loss of mobility and sensation. Employment is a well-recognised rehabilitation goal. In this study, we examine the impact of a publicly funded "package" of services that is designed to enable people with aspinalcordinjury to return to the workplace. Specifically, this package of services provided client directed assistance for assisting the recipient with the activities of daily living (e.g., bathing, food preparation, etc.). We combine primary data collection methods well developed in other scientific disciplines, but less frequently ...
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    The consequences of spinalcordinjury are profound and extend well beyond the immediate loss of mobility and sensation. Employment is a well-recognised rehabilitation goal. In this study, we examine the impact of a publicly funded "package" of services that is designed to enable people with aspinalcordinjury to return to the workplace. Specifically, this package of services provided client directed assistance for assisting the recipient with the activities of daily living (e.g., bathing, food preparation, etc.). We combine primary data collection methods well developed in other scientific disciplines, but less frequently utilised within economics, with traditional econometric techniques, to present a novel approach to this methodological issue. The Spinal Injuries Survey Instrument was developed and administered using a matched sampling approach. Collected data included, labourmarketoutcomes, exposure to the packages, as well as clinical and demographic covariates commonly identified by the spinalcordinjury literature. Concern for endogeneity was addressed by collecting data on several variables that might serve as suitable instruments for the econometric work and measures of otherwise-unobserved sources of heterogeneity. For example, a psychological measure of "attributional style was adapted from the field of psychology in order to control for a potentially confounding source of latent individual heterogeneity, viz. "motivation". While our results find zero marginal effect of support packages on labourmarketoutcomes, we find that training undertaken post-injury and age are both positively correlated with labourmarket participation.
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    Journal Title
    Economics and Human Biology
    Volume
    8
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2010.05.003
    Copyright Statement
    © 2010 Elsevier B.V. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
    Applied Economics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49432
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