Dynamics of Reporting Work Disability in Europe

Angelini, Viola; Cavapozzi, Danilo; Paccagnella, Omar

doi:10.1111/j.1467-985x.2011.00705.x

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“…Vignette equivalence implies that the life satisfaction level of hypothetical persons described in vignettes is perceived in the same way by different respondents. The inclusion of the random effect in the scale equation (3) relaxes this assumption somewhat; in an equivalent formulation of the model, the random effect could be placed in the vignette equation (6) rather than in the threshold (Angelini et al, 2011). Although we cannot allow observed characteristics to influence the way different people perceive the vignettes, we can account for the presence of individual unobserved heterogeneity.…”

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“…However, considering the psychological nature of life satisfaction, the use of time-invariant scales by such methodologies is open to criticism. That is, the scale that a person uses to evaluate herself can vary over time, depending on her actual mood and her socio-economic conditions (Kahneman et al, 2004b;Angelini, Cavapozzi and Paccagnella, 2011).…”

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Do Danes and Italians Rate Life Satisfaction in the Same Way? Using Vignettes to Correct for Individual‐Specific Scale Biases

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Self-reported life satisfaction is highly heterogeneous across similar countries. We show that this phenomenon can by largely explained by the fact that individuals adopt different scales and benchmarks in evaluating themselves. Using a cross sectional dataset on individuals aged 50 and over in ten European countries, we compare estimates from an Ordered Probit in which life satisfaction scales are invariant across respondents with those from a Hopit model in which vignettes are used to correct for individual-specific scale biases. We find that variations in response scales explain a large part of the differences found in raw data. Moreover, the cross countries ranking in life satisfaction dramatically depends on scale biases.JEL classification: C42, D12, I31, J14.

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Do Danes and Italians Rate Life Satisfaction in the Same Way? Using Vignettes to Correct for Individual‐Specific Scale Biases

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“…Furthermore, relying on an objective indicator is particularly helpful in a cross-country study like ours. First, differences in the subjective scales people use to report health across countries and age groups (see Angelini, Cavapozzi, & Paccagnella, 2011;Peracchi & Rossetti, 2012) may hamper the comparability of results derived from self-reported health questions. Second, justification bias (see Bound, 1991;Kapteyn, Smith, & Van Soest, 2011) may also lead early retirees to claim that they are in bad health to justify their early retirement, generating reverse causality.…”

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Work, retirement, and muscle strength loss in old age

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Reduced muscle strength is an accurate predictor of functional limitations, disability, and mortality. Hence, understanding which socio-economic factors contribute to preserve muscle strength in old age is central to the design of social policies that help reducing these health risks. Using data on handgrip strength collected by the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for the population of Europeans aged 50+ and the exogenous variation in pension eligibility age across countries over time, we estimate that the retirement transition has a short-term positive causal effect on muscle strength. However, this protective effect is not persistent, as retirement speeds up the age-related trend in muscle strength loss, especially for blue-collar workers and males. The "holy grail" of early retirement may not be such a good deal for retirees' longevity and physical functioning late in life.

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“…For health and disability vignettes, respondents are asked to rate, using an ordinal categorical scale, the severity of the health or work limitations of (hypothetical) individuals. A number of recent studies employ anchoring vignette strategies to adjust for reporting heterogeneity in self-reported measures of health and disability [ 1 – 9 ]. These analyses document substantial systematic variation in the way individuals characterize the severity of health conditions or work limitations presented in a vignette.…”

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Anchoring Vignettes in the Health and Retirement Study: How Do Medical Professionals and Disability Recipients Characterize the Severity of Work Limitations?

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2015

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PurposeRecent studies report systematic differences in how individuals categorize the severity of identical health and work limitation vignettes. We investigate how health professionals and disability recipients characterize the severity of work limitations and whether their reporting patterns are robust to demographic, education, and health characteristics. We use the results to illustrate the potential impact of reporting heterogeneity on the distribution of work disability estimated from self-reported categorical health and disability data.MethodNationally representative data on anchoring disability vignettes from the 2004 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) are used to investigate how respondents with an occupation background in health and Social Security disability beneficiaries categorize work limitation vignettes. Using pain, cardiovascular health, and depression vignettes, we estimate generalized ordered probit models (N = 2,660 individuals or 39,681 person-vignette observations) that allow the severity thresholds to vary by respondent characteristics.ResultsWe find that health professionals (excluding nurses) and disability recipients tend to classify identical work limitations as more severe compared to non-health professional non-disabled respondents. For disability recipients, the differences are most pronounced and particularly visible in the tails of the work limitations distribution. For health professionals, we observe smaller differences, affecting primarily the classification of mildly and moderately severe work limitations. The patterns for health professionals (excluding nurses) are robust to demographics, education, and health conditions. The greater likelihood of viewing the vignette person as more severely work limited observed among disability recipients is mostly explained by the fact that these respondents also tend to be in poorer health which itself predicts a more inclusive scale.ConclusionsKnowledge of reporting scales from health professionals and disabled individuals can benefit researchers in a broad range of applications in health and disability research. They may be useful as reference scales to evaluate disability survey data. Such knowledge may be beneficial when studying disability programs. Given the increasing availability of anchoring vignette data in surveys, this is a promising area for future evaluation research.

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Dynamics of Reporting Work Disability in Europe

Cited by 24 publications

References 15 publications

Do Danes and Italians Rate Life Satisfaction in the Same Way? Using Vignettes to Correct for Individual‐Specific Scale Biases

Do Danes and Italians Rate Life Satisfaction in the Same Way? Using Vignettes to Correct for Individual‐Specific Scale Biases

Work, retirement, and muscle strength loss in old age

Anchoring Vignettes in the Health and Retirement Study: How Do Medical Professionals and Disability Recipients Characterize the Severity of Work Limitations?

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