This study empirically analysed the impact of workers' compensation rehabilitation services on the social reintegration, vocational recovery, return to work and employment of injured workers. This study empirically analyses the impact of rehabilitatio...
This study empirically analysed the impact of workers' compensation rehabilitation services on the social reintegration, vocational recovery, return to work and employment of injured workers. This study empirically analyses the impact of rehabilitation services on the social reintegration, vocational recovery, return to work and employment retention of injured workers. In particular, the study focuses on the effects of work status, such as fully-employed worker, temporary, and daily employed worker, and the presence or absence of trade unions, and the presence or absence of a labour union affect the effectiveness of rehabilitation services. The study was conducted in a dual labour market structure of a country, aiming at improving the social and economic status of vulnerable groups. The study sheds new light on the role of workers' compensation insurance as a social safety net to improve the social and economic status of vulnerable groups in a country's dual labour market structure. The study found that access to workers' compensation rehabilitation services had a positive moderating effect on the probability of return to work in fully-employed worker occupations. The results of the study showed that access to workers' compensation rehabilitation services had a positive moderating effect on the probability of returning to work. In particular, the use of rehabilitation services actually decreased the probability of returning to work, suggesting that rehabilitation service strategies should be tailored to the characteristics of the work status. The results suggest that rehabilitation service strategies should be tailored to the characteristics of the work status. In addition, for return to work, rehabilitation services had an overall negative effect. However, programmes that explicitly support return to work, such as the ‘Work Capability Assessment (Return to Work Certificate)’ programme, had a positive effect. Programmes that explicitly support return to work, such as the ‘Work Capability Assessment (Return to Work Certificate)’ programme, had a positive effect. We also found that the presence of a trade union had a positive impact on return to work. This suggests that trade unions can play an important supportive role in the social and vocational reintegration of injured workers. This suggests that trade unions can play an important supportive role in the social and occupational reintegration process. Finally, we found that the duration of employment after rehabilitation services decreased, indicating that the effectiveness of rehabilitation services does not translate into employment stability for injured workers. This suggests the need for further policy improvements. Initial rehabilitation policies aimed at restoring the physical damage and labour capacity of injured workers and expanded the scope of rehabilitation to medical rehabilitation. The current rehabilitation policy focuses on the ‘return to work’ of injured workers and aims to increase the ‘vocational recovery rate’. The top priority of rehabilitation policy is to increase the ‘return to work’ rate of injured workers. However, the aspects of return to work vary widely depending on the position of the worker. For example, daily employed workers are secondary labour market workers, exposed to low wages and poor working conditions. They are vulnerable to workplace injuries and are less than half as likely as fully-employed workers to successfully return to work, and even when they do, it can be difficult to secure employment. Even once they have returned to work, they are less likely to have job security than workers in other occupational statuses. The study's findings are illustrated in survival analysis graphs, which show that workers who are injured on the job are less likely to return to work within two years. About 75 per cent of workers in the fully-employed worker sector remain employed two years after their first return to work, compared to about 50 per cent of workers in the industrial sector. In contrast, only about 50 per cent of casual and temporary workers remain employed two years after their first return to work. About five years after returning to work, only 50 per cent of daily employed workers and temporary workers remain employed, compared to 50 per cent of fully-employed workers, and around 30 per cent for temporary and casual workers. To ensure long-term employment retention and job satisfaction, ongoing follow-up and policy support is needed, especially psychological and social support. Employment can be difficult to maintain, especially without psychological and social support. Co-operation and solidarity between injured workers, employers and governments, and strengthening policy and economic support for injured workers are also needed. Limitations of this study, which is based on workers' compensation panel data, include the relatively low proportion of rehabilitation service users and the lack of detailed information on the content and frequency of the programmes used. The lack of detailed information on the content and frequency of rehabilitation programmes makes it difficult to ensure the validity and reliability of the analysis. This limits the validity and reliability of the analysis and limits the generalisability of some of the results. Therefore, future research should provide more detailed information on return-to-work satisfaction and job retention, which were not covered in this study. A more detailed analysis of return-to-work satisfaction and job retention is needed. Further disaggregation of the effects of different types of rehabilitation services and programmes is needed. By further disaggregating the effects of different types of rehabilitation services and programmes, more effective rehabilitation support can be tailored to the needs and circumstances of each injured worker. In addition, policy improvements in the rehabilitation services of workers' compensation insurance can help to build social safety nets and contribute to building a social safety net and realising social integration through policy improvements. Keywords: workers' compensation rehabilitation services, return to work, return to work, employment retention, occupational status, labour union effects, moderating effects, binary logistic regression analysis, survival analysis Student Number: 23-24226