identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

This paper addresses whether children's exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability …-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working …-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving …

reductions in disability rates. These improvements were larger for those born in states with higher pre-intervention levels of …, larger and more robust to specification for men than for women. With the exception of cognitive disability and poverty for …

entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …

Canadian disability policy has come a long way in the past century. However, in contrast with the evidence that … disability is not permanent for most, current disability support programs still carry the old static view of permanent disability … force exposure is crucial for better return-to-work outcomes for persons with a disability. Without labour force exposure …

on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation to severe disability, however, is shown to be incomplete. The …

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 …

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act. Significant heterogeneity within the disabled group is identified …: those suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions suggest the ‘penalty …