acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk … Working Lives of the Spanish SS system. It contains individual, job and firm information of over a million workers, including … a representative sample of immigrants. We find that risk exposure increases the probability of permanent disability by 5 …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …

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 …

Among countries with comparable levels of income, India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks …

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 …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement … entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue … for workers aged 50+; and (ii) program substitution is quantitatively relevant for workers aged 55+. We derive a simple …

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 …

, requires a hiring quota for firms, and subsidizes the employment of severely disabled (SD) workers. Using a large sample of … eligible individuals we compare workers before and after acquiring legal SD-status. Unsurprisingly, we find that holding … SDstatus is associated with lower employment and earnings. However, workers holding a job when acquiring legal SD-status have …