We examine the potential causal effect of years of schooling on the use of public disability pensions by studying the … extension of compulsory schooling introduced in Norway in the 1960s. Simple regressions of disability pension receipt on … schooling suggest a very strong negative relationship between education and disability pension use, particularly in the lower …

This paper looks at individual risk behavior and disability in Vietnam, where many households live with a disabled … family member. Due to the Vietnam war, disability is a common phenomenon and shapes individuals' daily life and decision …

The microsimulation model MOSART is used to analyse the long run development in disability and old-age pensions covered …

We investigate the impact of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization in Norway. Plant downsizing … substantially increases the disability entry rate of workers in affected plants. Workers originally employed in plants that closed … between 1993 and 1998 were 27.9 percent more likely to utilize disability pensions in 1999 than comparable workers in non …

We estimate the magnitude of social interaction effects in disability pension participation among older workers in … Norway. Specifically, we investigate how a worker's propensity to draw disability benefits is affected by a plausibly … exogenous shock to the disability entry rate of similarly-aged workers in his or her neighborhood. The problem of omitted …

The discrete choice model of McFadden (1973) is used to quantify the desire for going into rehabilitation or disability …-time employed married women going into disability or rehabilitation are not doing so entirely voluntarily. Using a set of … has also played a significant role in increasing the number on disability and rehabilitation, while changes in disability …