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How do people with disabilities cope while waiting for disability insurance benefits?

Coe, Norma; Lindner, Stephan; Wong, Kendrew; Wu, April - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-27

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Finding alternatives to disability benefit receipt

Livermore, Gina; Wittenburg, David; Neumark, David - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-9

This introduction offers a context for the articles in this thematic series by providing an overview of the programs that provide cash and in-kind supports to people with disabilities in the United States, summarizes the increasing reliance on these programs, and describes the challenges...

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Activation and employment support policies in OECD countries: An overview of current approaches

Immervoll, Herwig; Scarpetta, Stefano - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

This note examines the balance of activation strategies in OECD countries, where this type of policy approach has a long tradition. Countries share the objective of strengthening employment and reducing benefit dependency and vulnerability among the working-age population, but the balance of...

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Subsidized work before and after the German Hartz reforms: Design of major schemes, evaluation results and lessons learnt

Wolff, Joachim; Stephan, Gesine - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-24

This review discusses empirical studies on hiring subsidies in the private sector and on schemes directly providing usually public or non-profit sector jobs for the unemployed in Germany. An important effect of hiring subsidies is that they stabilise employment. For employment schemes, results...

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Activation and employment support policies in OECD countries : an overview of current approaches

Immervoll, Herwig; Scarpetta, Stefano - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

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Disability benefit growth and disability reform in the US: Lessons from other OECD nations

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; McVicar, Duncan; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-30

severe impairments can work, led to fundamental disability policy reforms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Great Britain. In … Australia, rapid growth in disability recipiency led to more modest reforms. Here we describe the factors driving unsustainable … OECD countries, and discuss the reforms each country implemented to regain control over their cash transfer disability …

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Disability benefit growth and disability reform in the US: lessons from other OECD nations

Burkhauser, Richard; Daly, Mary; McVicar, Duncan; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-30

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The effect of vocational rehabilitation on the employment outcomes of disability insurance beneficiaries: New evidence from Canada

Campolieti, Michele; Gunderson, Morley K. L.; Smith, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-29

We estimate the effects of the vocational rehabilitation (VR) program run by the Canada Pension Plan Disability Program …

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Reconciling findings on the employment effect of disability insurance

Bound, John; Lindner, Stephan; Waidmann, Timothy - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

Over the last 25 years, the Social Security Disability Insurance Program (DI) has grown dramatically. During the same … group, raising questions about the targeting of disability benefits, studies using denied applicants suggest a more modest …

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Are employability skills learned in US youth education and training programs?

Lerman, Robert I. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-20

Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests of reading, writing and math abilities and by...

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