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Who returns to work and why?
— Evidence and policy implications from a new disability and work reintegration study : a summary | | Author(s) | Ilene Zeitzer |
| Corporate Author | International Social Security Association - ISSA |
| Publisher | International Social Security Association - ISSA, Geneva, 2002 |
| Pages | 36 pp |
| Source | ISSA, Research Programme, Case postale 1, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland. www.issa.int |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Injuries ; Disablement benefit ; Employment of older people ; Comparison ; Denmark ; Germany ; Israel ; Netherlands ; Sweden ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In industrialised countries, back problems are typically the leading physical cause of receipt of disability benefits. This booklet provides a synopsis of a comparative study of work incapacity and reintegration (the WIR Project) undertaken in the mid-1990s under the auspices of the International Social Security Association (ISSA). The research summarised here aimed to determine whether the various interventions found in the countries examined - Denmark, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States (US) - make a difference to work resumption patterns, and if so, what are the best interventions. The Project also allowed researchers to measure the effects of such factors as the duration of work absence, medical and vocational interventions, labour market policies and practices, and other social and demographic aspects such as living alone the the availability of social support. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030821515 B |
| Classmark | BN: CU: JHK: GC: 48: 76K: 767: 7H6: 76H: 76P: 7T |
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