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identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …
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The paper studies retirement behavior of wage‐earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data to estimate a model à la Stock and Wise (1990). Exploring the longitudinal nature of...
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This paper addresses whether children's exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability …-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working …-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving …
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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 …
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entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …
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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 … force exposure is crucial for better return-to-work outcomes for persons with a disability. Without labour force exposure …
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New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to work. Statistics New Zealand’s Linked Employer-Employee Database contains monthly information...
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In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and apply semi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on (re)employment probabilities. We find that disabled persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatric and...
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on to exhibit recovery in mental wellbeing. Adaptation to severe disability, however, is shown to be incomplete. The …
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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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