Rehabilitation technologies offer promising opportunities for interventions for patients with motor disabilities. However, their use in routine care remains limited due to their high cost and persistent doubts about their cost‑ effectiveness. Providing solid evidence of the economic efficiency...

What is in this document? This document gives suggestions for how to make sure vocational rehabilitation works well. We will call vocational rehabilitation VR for short. What is vocational rehabilitation? There are many different ideas about what VR is exactly. This document has a suggestion for...

Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration can improve the social reintegration of inmates in some circumstances. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration may favor rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper exploits variations in program availability in Quebec (Canada) to...

Arguments are made that, for a typical economy, with many goods and consumers, classical tatonnement dynamics results in a globally stable equilibrium. Since global stability implies uniqueness of equilibrium, these kinds of results complete the positive general equilibrium program classically...

This paper studies the impact of a national ecological rehabilitation program on sustainable development outcomes in rural China. I use the 2009-2010 consolidation of the Land Sloping Conversion Program (SLCP) as a quasi-natural experiment to study what happens when one of the world’s largest...

We construct a structural model of participation in vocational rehabilitation and labor market outcomes for people with vision impairments. There are multiple services to choose among, and each has different effects on employment and earnings. We estimate negative effects for most service types,...

Background The influence of both individual factors and, in particular, the regional labour market on the return to work after medical rehabilitation is to be analyzed based on comprehensive administrative data from the German Pension Insurance and Employment Agencies. Method For rehabilitation...

This paper examines a broad set of short- and long-term impacts of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for disability benefit recipients with severe mental disabilities. IPS is a specific intervention that first aims to place an individual in employment and subsequently trains the worker on...

Work impairment is an increasing concern in advanced economies, particularly among young people. Activation, rather than passively providing economic support, is often regarded as the preferred strategy for addressing this issue. However, little is known about which measures are effective for...

-- Chapter 1: Introduction. -- Chapter 2: Literature Review. -- Chapter 3: Introduction to Rate of Return, Modelling, and Estimation. -- Chapter 4: National Data: What Do We Learn?. -- Chapter 5: Analysis of VR Programs in Five States. -- Chapter 6: Simplifying the Model. -- Chapter 7:...

Purpose: Since the enactment of the long-term care insurance (LTCI) act in 2000, the number of LTCI users has increased annually. However, evidence regarding what is being carried out as rehabilitation treatment under LTCI is lacking. In this study, a scoping review was performed to bridge this...

Problem definition: The increase in demand for rehabilitation care has led to long admission delays. These delays not only affect patient outcomes, but also lead to bed blocking in acute care. Admission delays can be caused by capacity constraints or extra processing requirements....

Background: People with visual impairment or blindness (PWVIB) face many barriers related to employment. Although literature explores employers' concerns regarding the employment of PWVIB, stating the concern and developing a solution are different. Objectives: Employers' solutions to concerns...

This paper investigates how micro-foundations influence institutional logics on the CBR project in Thailand. The result found CBR included the variety of institutional logics which are also influenced by norm, belief, and behavior from its stakeholders that comprises of the state, professional,...

The goal of this assessment is to identify barriers and opportunities to the supply of and demand for labor among persons with disabilities in Russia, as well as opportunities to increase their participation in the labor market. The research includes an overview of legis-lation, social policies,...

Introduction: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) aims to improve disease control in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. However, the success of PR-programs depends on the patients' participation and willingness to cooperate. Taking the patients' preferences into...

People with severe disabilities, such as severe mental disabilities and autism spectrum disorders, do not participate in the open, competitive labor market to the same extent as people without disabilities or other forms of disability. Sheltered employment is an internationally accepted approach...

There is a pronounced gradient in disability across socioeconomic groups, with better educated and higher income groups reporting substantially less disability. In this paper, we consider why that is the case, focusing on impairments in basic physical and cognitive aspects of living for the...

Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration, under certain circumstances, can improve inmates' social reintegration upon release. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration can lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper finds that participation in social...

This paper considers causal inference and sample selection bias in non-experimental settings in which: (i) few units in the non-experimental comparison group are comparable to the treatment units, and (ii) selecting a subset of comparison units similar to the treatment units is difficult because...

The present study was an attempt to conduct a mangrove rehabilitation program, propose possible mangrove based income generating project and eventually create an eco-tourism destination.The researcher selected 100 respondents which composed of; 50 resident and fisher folks of Tibaguin Hagonoy...

Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration can improve inmates' social reintegration under certain circumstances. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration may lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper finds that participation in social rehabilitation...

Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration, under certain circumstances, can improve inmates' social reintegration upon release. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration can lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper finds that participation in social...

Using data from a large-scale randomized controlled trial conducted in Danish job centers, this paper investigates the effects of an intensification of mandatory return-to-work activities on the subsequent labor market outcomes for sick-listed workers. Using variations in local treatment...

Die 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage von "Robotik in der Gesundheitswirtschaft" gibt einen umfassenden Überblick zum aktuellen Stand robotischer Lösungen und Entwicklungen für die Einsatzfelder Krankenhaus, Rehabilitation, Altenpflege sowie zur Unterstützung des selbstständigen...

This paper studies the labor market impacts of firm accommodation decisions and assesses implications for the design of social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides wage subsidies to firms for accommodating injured...

The specter of German Angst: Are we too skeptical for AI development? -- Practice Guide AI = Collaborative and Interdisciplinary -- Future Collaboration between Humans and Artificial Intelligence -- Innovation and Startups.Artificial Intelligence Demands Corporate Digital Responsibility -- AI...