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Occupational Hazards and Social Disability Insurance

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  • Amanda Michaud
  • David Wiczer

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Using retrospective data, we introduce evidence that occupational exposure significantly affects disability risk. Incorporating this into a general equilibrium model, social disability insurance (SDI) affects welfare through (i) the classic, risk-sharing channel and (ii) a new channel of occupational reallocation. Both channels can increase welfare, but at the optimal SDI they are at odds. Welfare gains from additional risk-sharing are reduced by overly incentivizing workers to choose risky occupations. In a calibration, optimal SDI increases welfare by 2.3% relative to actuarially fair insurance, mostly due to risk sharing.

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  • Amanda Michaud & David Wiczer, 2017. "Occupational Hazards and Social Disability Insurance," Department of Economics Working Papers 17-11, Stony Brook University, Department of Economics.
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    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
    • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private

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