We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … status) has gone through a significant transformation since 2013 with the gradual replacement of the disability living …

Poverty is a reality that is present to a greater or lesser extent in all regions of the world. Disability, like … poverty, is also a reality in the society in which we live. Disability is not only a reality, but an inescapable truth, as at … some point in life all people will be vulnerable and will exhibit some form of disability. When combined, poverty and …

or transitory poverty than households where a disability is not present. Yet, these households are no more likely to end … investigate both the immediate effects of shocks on household's income and assets, and the longer-term poverty dynamics of … that policies for DHs should address these natural shocks, our poverty dynamics analysis paints a different picture …

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

Work, 1996). In addition, legislation (Disability Discrimination Act, 1995) prohibits discrimination hence firms are not …