Labor Market Transition Trajectories After Medical Care Completion Among Injured Workers - Typology and Determinants -

Key Points

• This study aims to categorize the trajectories of injured workers in the labor market after completing medical care and identify key determinants affecting these trajectories.
• Utilized data from the Workers' Compensation Panel Study for two cohorts (2013-2017 and 2018-2021) focusing on injured workers' job information for four years post-care.
• Employed event sequence analysis and cluster analysis to identify five distinct labor market transition types.
• Applied multinomial logistic regression to analyze the influence of individual characteristics, injury attributes, and job factors on reintegration outcomes.
• Identified five labor market transition types: stable full-time reemployment, stable return to original workplace, diverse reemployment outside original workplace, continuous non-economic activity, and non-employment or exit to non-economy post-reemployment.
• Factors positively influencing return to original workplace included being male, higher work ability, longer tenure, and stable job status.
• Older age, occupational disease, and longer recovery periods increased likelihood of switching to non-economic activities or non-employment.