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 …

consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … and closure data collected from bankruptcy proceedings, we show that a large fraction of Norwegian disability insurance … estimate that job loss more than doubles the risk of entry to permanent disability and that displacements account for fully 28 …

We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on … relationship between work-limiting disability and over-skilling, it appears that there is a positive relationship between work …-limiting disability and over-education, which is consistent with disability onset leading to downward occupational movement, at least in …

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 …