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Metoda Dodič Fikfak - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sickness presence among Disabled Workers at the university medical centre ljubljana prezentizem med invalidi v univerzitetenem klinicnem centru ljubljana
Slovenian Journal of Public Health, 2014Co-Authors: Alenka Škerjanc, Metoda Dodič FikfakAbstract:OBJECTIVES The aim of the article is to investigate the differences in sickness present and non-sickness present in the group of Disabled health care professionals. METHODS Data were gathered from all Disabled health care professionals suffering from invalidity of category II or III who were identified in the research among all health care professionals at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana and who were employed there in the period between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2010. Each employee obtained a questionnaire composed of three standardized international questionnaires. RESULTS There were 248 Disabled Workers of the II. and III. category of invalidity among the participants. Disabled sickness present reported to have more chronic diseases than Disabled non-sickness present (OR = 57.0; 95% CI = 24.4-133.2), lower salary when on sick leave (OR = 13.1; 95% CI = 5.7-30.2) and poor self-rated health (OR = 5.8; 95% CI = 2.7-12.3). CONCLUSIONS The prerequisite for sickness presence among Disabled Workers is their chronic bad health. It is also formally recognized with the degree of disability. Economic factors are among the most important to direct Disabled Workers towards sickness presence. The results indicate that workplaces are not adapted to Disabled Workers in regard to their limitations.
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Sickness Presence among Disabled Workers at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana / Prezentizem Med Invalidi V Univerzitetenem Kliničnem Centru Ljubljana
Zdravstveno varstvo, 2014Co-Authors: Alenka Škerjanc, Metoda Dodič FikfakAbstract:OBJECTIVES The aim of the article is to investigate the differences in sickness present and non-sickness present in the group of Disabled health care professionals. METHODS Data were gathered from all Disabled health care professionals suffering from invalidity of category II or III who were identified in the research among all health care professionals at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana and who were employed there in the period between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2010. Each employee obtained a questionnaire composed of three standardized international questionnaires. RESULTS There were 248 Disabled Workers of the II. and III. category of invalidity among the participants. Disabled sickness present reported to have more chronic diseases than Disabled non-sickness present (OR = 57.0; 95% CI = 24.4-133.2), lower salary when on sick leave (OR = 13.1; 95% CI = 5.7-30.2) and poor self-rated health (OR = 5.8; 95% CI = 2.7-12.3). CONCLUSIONS The prerequisite for sickness presence among Disabled Workers is their chronic bad health. It is also formally recognized with the degree of disability. Economic factors are among the most important to direct Disabled Workers towards sickness presence. The results indicate that workplaces are not adapted to Disabled Workers in regard to their limitations.
Alenka Škerjanc - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sickness presence among Disabled Workers at the university medical centre ljubljana prezentizem med invalidi v univerzitetenem klinicnem centru ljubljana
Slovenian Journal of Public Health, 2014Co-Authors: Alenka Škerjanc, Metoda Dodič FikfakAbstract:OBJECTIVES The aim of the article is to investigate the differences in sickness present and non-sickness present in the group of Disabled health care professionals. METHODS Data were gathered from all Disabled health care professionals suffering from invalidity of category II or III who were identified in the research among all health care professionals at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana and who were employed there in the period between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2010. Each employee obtained a questionnaire composed of three standardized international questionnaires. RESULTS There were 248 Disabled Workers of the II. and III. category of invalidity among the participants. Disabled sickness present reported to have more chronic diseases than Disabled non-sickness present (OR = 57.0; 95% CI = 24.4-133.2), lower salary when on sick leave (OR = 13.1; 95% CI = 5.7-30.2) and poor self-rated health (OR = 5.8; 95% CI = 2.7-12.3). CONCLUSIONS The prerequisite for sickness presence among Disabled Workers is their chronic bad health. It is also formally recognized with the degree of disability. Economic factors are among the most important to direct Disabled Workers towards sickness presence. The results indicate that workplaces are not adapted to Disabled Workers in regard to their limitations.
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Sickness Presence among Disabled Workers at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana / Prezentizem Med Invalidi V Univerzitetenem Kliničnem Centru Ljubljana
Zdravstveno varstvo, 2014Co-Authors: Alenka Škerjanc, Metoda Dodič FikfakAbstract:OBJECTIVES The aim of the article is to investigate the differences in sickness present and non-sickness present in the group of Disabled health care professionals. METHODS Data were gathered from all Disabled health care professionals suffering from invalidity of category II or III who were identified in the research among all health care professionals at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana and who were employed there in the period between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2010. Each employee obtained a questionnaire composed of three standardized international questionnaires. RESULTS There were 248 Disabled Workers of the II. and III. category of invalidity among the participants. Disabled sickness present reported to have more chronic diseases than Disabled non-sickness present (OR = 57.0; 95% CI = 24.4-133.2), lower salary when on sick leave (OR = 13.1; 95% CI = 5.7-30.2) and poor self-rated health (OR = 5.8; 95% CI = 2.7-12.3). CONCLUSIONS The prerequisite for sickness presence among Disabled Workers is their chronic bad health. It is also formally recognized with the degree of disability. Economic factors are among the most important to direct Disabled Workers towards sickness presence. The results indicate that workplaces are not adapted to Disabled Workers in regard to their limitations.
Michele Campolieti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Disabled Workers and Wage Losses: Some Evidence from Workers with Occupational Injuries
2011Co-Authors: Harry A. Krashinsky, Michele CampolietiAbstract:We examine the effects of work-related disabilities on the earnings losses of Disabled male Workers. First, we analyze the extent of the wage losses of Disabled Workers who remain at their pre-injury job relative to Disabled Workers who leave their pre-injury job, using regression and bias reduced matching estimators. Second, we estimate a components-of-variance model that examines the persistence of earnings shocks for Disabled Workers. Our estimates suggest that Disabled male Workers with work-related injuries who do not return to work with their accident employer have much larger wage losses and more persistent earnings shocks.
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State Dependence, Accommodations, and the Postinjury Employment of Disabled Workers
Industrial Relations, 2007Co-Authors: Michele CampolietiAbstract:This paper examines the postinjury employment patterns of Disabled Workers from Ontario, Canada by estimating a dynamic probit model with unobserved effects. The estimates indicate that there is some state dependence in the conditional probability of leaving employment for health reasons and that an employer accommodation can reduce the conditional probability of leaving employment for health reasons by 33 percent. Moreover, a supplementary cross-sectional analysis confirms that accommodations can reduce the probability of leaving employment.
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Disabled Workers and Wage Losses: Some Evidence from Workers with Occupational Injuries:
ILR Review, 2006Co-Authors: Michele Campolieti, Harry A. KrashinskyAbstract:Using data from the Survey of Ontario Workers with Permanent Impairments (1989–90), the authors examine the effects of work-related disabilities on the wage losses of Disabled male Workers. One important focus of the analysis is whether the size of Disabled Workers' wage losses was affected by whether they remained at or left the job where the accident occurred. The authors also estimate the longer-term persistence of wage shocks for Disabled Workers. The estimates suggest that wage losses were larger for Disabled Workers who did not return to work with their time-of-accident employer than for those who did return, with the latter earning 27% more. Furthermore, wages appear to have been more persistent for Workers who did not return to their accident employer than for those who did return.
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The Correlates of Accommodations for Permanently Disabled Workers
2004Co-Authors: Michele CampolietiAbstract:This article examines the determinants of the job accommodations made by employers using data from the Survey of Ontario Workers with Permanent Impairments. I use a censored bivariate probit model, which allows for the selection of return-to-work decisions to obtain my estimates. The most important findings of this article suggest that Workers who received vocational training prior to their accident and returned to work with the time-of-accident employer are more likely to receive an accommodation.
A. Young - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Design Guidelines for Accommodating Amputees in the Workplace
Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 2001Co-Authors: A. Girdhar, A. Mital, A. Kephart, A. YoungAbstract:Rehabilitation experts have been addressing the problem of accommodating Disabled Workers in the workplace for many years. When these Disabled Workers return to work, accomplishing the tasks they performed prior to their disability can present a serious challenge. Meeting this challenge successfully requires that employers provide accommodations at the workplace so that the Disabled Workers can continue to contribute efficiently to the operation of the enterprise. Disabilities that are caused by amputations are quite critical. The severity of the injury in terms of loss of a limb and the costs associated with accommodations make this type of disability extremely significant. This paper deals with accommodating “permanent partial” and “permanent total disabilities” due to amputations. The paper is divided into two main parts. The first part focuses on the causes of amputations, types, and difficulties that an amputee faces in the work environment. In this part, an understanding of the amputee physiology has been developed. The second part of the paper addresses the various measures that employers may take in accommodating the amputees at the workplace. Design guidelines are provided to make the workplace suitable for the amputees.
Josef Zweimüller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Do Financial Incentives Affect Firms’ Demand For Disabled Workers?
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013Co-Authors: Rafael Lalive, Jean-philippe Wuellrich, Josef ZweimüllerAbstract:A number of OECD countries aim to encourage work integration of Disabled persons using quota policies. For instance, Austrian firms must provide at least one job to a Disabled worker per 25 nonDisabled Workers and are subject to a tax if they do not. This “threshold design” provides causal estimates of the noncompliance tax on Disabled employment if firms do not manipulate nonDisabled employment; a lower and upper bound on the causal effect can be constructed if they do. Results indicate that firms with 25 nonDisabled Workers employ about 0.04 (or 12%) more Disabled Workers than without the tax; firms do manipulate employment of nonDisabled Workers but the lower bound on the employment effect of the quota remains positive; employment effects are stronger in low-wage firms than in high-wage firms; and firms subject to the quota of two Disabled Workers or more hire 0.08 more Disabled Workers per additional quota job. Moreover, increasing the noncompliance tax increases excess Disabled employment, whereas paying a bonus to overcomplying firms slightly dampens the employment effects of the tax.
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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
2009Co-Authors: Rafael Lalive, Jean-philippe Wuellrich, Josef ZweimüllerAbstract:We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for Disabled Workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a Disabled worker per 25 non-Disabled Workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find that, as a result of the discontinuous nature of the non-compliance tax, firms exactly at the quota threshold employ 0.05 (20 % in relative terms) more Disabled Workers than firms just below the threshold - an effect that is unlikely driven by purposeful selection below the threshold. The flat rate nature of the non-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing firms passing the quota threshold react with a substantial time-lag but the magnitude of the long-run effect is similar to the one found in cross-section contrasts.