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Who goes on disability when times are tough? : the role of social costs of take-up among immigrants
Furtado, Delia; Papps, Kerry L.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2019
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) take-up tends to increase during recessions. We exploit variation across immigrant groups in the non-pecuniary costs of participating in SSDI to examine the role that costs play in applicant decisions across the business cycle. We show that immigrants...
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Trends in gender and racial/ethnic disparities in physical disability and social support among U.S. older adults with cognitive impairment living alone, 2000-2018
Chen, Shanquan; Zhang, Huanyu; Underwood, Benjamin R.; … - 2023
Informal care is a primary source of support for older adults with cognitive impairment but is less available to those who live alone. We leverage the U.S. Health and Retirement Survey 2000-2018 to examine trends in the prevalence of physical disability and social support among older adults with...
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Integrating severely disabled individuals into the labour market : the Austrian case
Humer, Brigitte (contributor);  … - 2007
"We study the impact of the Austrian Employment Act for the Disabled which grants extended employment protection, 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...
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Re-employment dynamics of disabled workers
Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2001
We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of benefits not only depends on previous wages, but also...
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Long-term effects of individual placement and support services for disability benefits recipients with severe mental illnesses
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Spijkerman, Marcel; Zwinkels, Wim - 2020
This paper examines a broad set of short- and long-term impacts of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for disability benefit recipients with severe mental disabilities. IPS is a specific intervention that first aims to place an individual in employment and subsequently trains the worker on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296183
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Evidence of state-level variability in the economic and demographic well-being of people with disabilities in India
Menon, Nidhiya; Parish, Susan L.; Rose, Roderick A. - 2011
Among countries with comparable levels of income, India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks …; however, people with disabilities in India are subject to multiple disadvantages. This paper focuses on state-level variations … across all models in the outcomes examined. -- disability ; India ; economic well-being ; state variations ; people with …
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Early life access to polio vaccines and declining disability rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio …-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus …
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Citizenship, co-ethnic populations and employment probabilities of immigrants in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2009
Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of residency to five for foreign citizens and only two for Nordic citizens. Dual citizenship has been allowed since 2001. During the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth...
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How is the COVID-19 crisis exacerbating socioeconomic inequality among Palestinians in Israel?
Miaari, Sami H.; Sabbah-Karkabi, Maha; Loewenthal, Amit - 2020
The paper gives us a first look on the unique effects of the crisis on the Arab minority in Israel. It contributes to our understanding on how economic and epidemic crises affect marginalized ethnic minorities and informs decision makers while formulating policies to deal with the crisis's...
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In need of a roof : pandemic and housing vulnerability
Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Housing is a basic need and is intricately connected to a household's health and wellness. The current pandemic has exposed the housing vulnerability for certain subgroups of the population and further jeopardized these household's health and stability. Using the Household Pulse Survey launched...
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