The probability of acquiring a permanent disability is partly determined by working and contractual conditions … Working Lives provided by the Spanish Social Security system, containing records for over a million workers. We find that risk … exposure increases the probability of permanent disability – arising from any cause – by almost 5%. Temporary employment and …

Although some studies have analysed the disability phenomenon and its effect on, for example, labour force … participation, wages, job satisfaction, or the use of disability pension, the empirical evidence on how disability steals time (e … by gender and disability status. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that disability steals time, and …

that restrict the use of disability status as an underwriting criterion for small businesses have unintended consequences … in the labor market. The findings suggest that in states where disability is prohibited as an underwriting criterion …, both disabled and able-bodied workers of small firms earn more than their counterparts not subject to such restrictions …