par Ligato, Marina 
;Tojerow, Ilan ;Fontenay, Sébastien
Référence Wages, Employment and Inequality WEI(2025-08-21)
Publication Publié, 2025-08-21
;Tojerow, Ilan ;Fontenay, Sébastien Référence Wages, Employment and Inequality WEI(2025-08-21)
Publication Publié, 2025-08-21
Abstract de conférence
| Résumé : | Research highlights the benefits of workplace accommodations for job retention,yet many eligible workers lack adequate support. Existing studies focus primarily onworker-side incentives, leaving employer-side factors largely unexplored. This paperexamines the impact of employer discretion in selecting Disability Insurance (DI)recipients for Reintegration Trajectories (RTs), a program aimed at promoting workresumption through workplace adaptations and employer involvement. Exploitinga 2018 policy change in Belgium, we use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD)to estimate its causal effects. Employer-selected participants are 13.1 percentagepoints less likely to resume work and 19.7 percentage points more likely to remainin DI. Employers tend to select older participants with longer disability durations,often leading to unsuccessful trajectories. In contrast, an event study shows thattrajectories initiated by the medical advisor significantly accelerate work resumptionamong DI recipients |
