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Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the … of people with disabilities might best be done by keeping them in the labor market. Here we describe the evolution of … disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …
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We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using exogenous variation in screening induced by a policy reform. The reform raised DI application costs and revealed more information about the true disability status of applicants...
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The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions … affect their employment experiences. To address this, we analyze monthly U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 2009 … through 2017 and find that the unionization rate declined more rapidly among employees with disabilities. The results are not …
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We investigate the role of education in creating employment opportunities for persons with disabilities across the … educational attainment is a major factor determining the probability of employment among persons with disabilities. In particular …, the employment effects of tertiary education are much larger among persons with disabilities than among non …
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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. By employing a dynamic panel data model of labour...
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implications for strategies aimed at combining economic growth and employment with making serious inroads into poverty. We conclude …
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structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
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Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...
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that was implemented in 2006 in Belgium could have played a role not only in the transition to employment and inactivity … unemployment to disability and no impact on the transition rate to employment or inactivity. More precisely, individuals just below …
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This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
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