Factors affffecting initial disability allowance rates for the disability insurance and supplemental security income programs: The role of the demographic and diagnostic composition of applicants and local labor market conditions

Social Security Bulletin

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 11-35

  Rupp, Kalman ^a  

^a SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DISABILITY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INSURANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL SECURITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSURANCE BENEFITS; INSURANCE, DISABILITY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873703897     PISSN: 00377910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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