The effects of worker heterogeneity on duration dependence: Low-back claims in workers compensation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Butler, RJ; Baldwin, ML; Johnson, WG
• 署名单位: Brigham Young University; University of North Carolina; East Carolina University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/003465301753237786
• 发表日期: 2001-11
• 页码: 708-716
• 关键词: mixture likelihoods; models; disability; pain; geometry

摘要

We estimate models of workers compensation claim duration for a sample of Canadian workers with serious low-back injuries. The models extend recent duration research by allowing worker characteristics to affect duration dependence through the nonlocation parameters of the duration distribution. We compare results for modified Weibull models and piecewise-constant hazard rate models of duration dependence. The results show that workers' responses to elapsed claim duration vary significantly with their characteristics and with economic incentives to return to work. Further, allowing for heterogeneity in duration dependence effects can dramatically change the coefficient estimates of the variables that determine the location parameter of the duration distribution.