Vocational Rehabilitation Service Receipt, Service Expenditures, and Ruralness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An important factor embedded within Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) delivery capacity relates to geography, such as distance from the VR office and availability of service providers or community rehabilitation programs.

Objective

We explored receipt of VR job search and placement services based on distance to an urban center, demographic, and disability variables after controlling for local employment conditions.

Methods

Using 2015 RSA-911 case services data, we used probit to produce estimates for each combination of service and service source (agency and purchased), and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and semi-parametric regression to estimate log expenditures for each service category.

Results

Being Black or living at a long distance from a metro area

SUBMITTER: Ipsen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11414997 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature