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| Bruce Cater, Sohee Kang, Byron Lew and Marco Pollanen |
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| ''Permanent Injury and the Disability-Mitigating Effects of Education'' |
| ( 2013, Vol. 33 No.3 ) |
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| Using data from Ontario, we study the extent to which education mitigates the realized work-disabling effects of permanent occupational injury. Focusing first on the rates of post-injury employment, our results suggest that education has a strong disability-mitigating effect in cases of knee and shoulder injuries, but a smaller effect where workers have experienced permanent back or wrist/finger injuries. A comparison of pre- and post-injury occupations then reveals that education mitigates disability not so much by facilitating job shifting, but rather by enabling the individual to return to the pre-injury occupation. These latter results suggest that education may mitigate disability somewhat indirectly by facilitating the accumulation of occupation-specific human capital that, in turn, compensates for the effects of physical impairment. |
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| Keywords: Permanent Impairment, Disability, Employment, Adaptation |
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| Manuscript Received : Feb 10 2013 | | Manuscript Accepted : Aug 14 2013 |
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