acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk … Working Lives of the Spanish SS system. It contains individual, job and firm information of over a million workers, including … a representative sample of immigrants. We find that risk exposure increases the probability of permanent disability by 5 …

acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk … Working Lives of the Spanish SS system. It contains individual, job and firm information of over a million workers, including … a representative sample of immigrants. We find that risk exposure increases the probability of permanent disability by 5 …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement … entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue … for workers aged 50+; and (ii) program substitution is quantitatively relevant for workers aged 55+. We derive a simple …

disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt … of publically provided disability benefits has fluctuated over time and discuss how policy choices played a role. Based …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most … prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value framework, and pay special …

This paper examines the consequences of disability, identifying for the first time, the separate impacts of onsets and … recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in …. We also find a larger effect among self-employed workers compared to salaried workers. These results overall point …

uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns to education for these workers, which is drastically masked by the … workers' wages. Our stochastic dominance tests, however, show that the returns to education for workers with disabilities, as …

unionized jobs. This lower hiring rate more than offsets the greater job retention of unionized workers with disabilities. Given … jobs with union protections. Overall, in the union context, workers with disabilities appear more likely to be "last hired …," but less likely to be "first fired." We also find that a union wage premium of 29.8% for workers with disabilities is …

have impacted the rise of disability rates in OECD countries. To do so, we use an RDD design to study how a JSM program … but also in the transition to disability. The RDD exploits the fact that the program was only targeted at long …‐term unemployed workers below the age of 50. Our results show that the JSM program has had a large impact on the transition rate from …

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 … work experience, and the level of disability. As a result, different people will face different benefit schedules and hence …