a limiting long-term illness or disability. In our analysis of inactivity rates by region and age group we find that …

status. In this paper we use data from two large scale social surveys to examine the relationship between disability status … important lifecycle patterns. The incidence of disability increases with age and the effect of this is that disabled people are … that average differences understate the true disability wealth-penalty. People who experience disability later in life have …

progression of disabled people with respect to differences in age, education, occupation and disability severity. The evidence …

possible source of additional needs: disability. Using two UK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … costs of living associated with disability, and to quantify them using the ¿standard of living¿ approach. The underlying … theory is that a household¿s standard of living is a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be …

caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …

-existing disadvantage among those who become disabled (a ¿selection¿ effect), the effect of disability onset itself, and the effects … associated with remaining disabled post-onset. We show that employment rates fall with disability onset, and continue to fall the … longer a disability spell lasts, whereas average income falls sharply with onset but then recovers subsequently (though not …