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a limiting long-term illness or disability. In our analysis of inactivity rates by region and age group we find that …
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Relative poverty in the UK has risen massively since 1979 mainly because of increasing worklessness, rising earnings dispersion and benefits indexed to prices, not wages. So poverty is now at a very high level. The economic forces underlying this are the significant shift in demand against the...
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status. In this paper we use data from two large scale social surveys to examine the relationship between disability status … important lifecycle patterns. The incidence of disability increases with age and the effect of this is that disabled people are … that average differences understate the true disability wealth-penalty. People who experience disability later in life have …
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progression of disabled people with respect to differences in age, education, occupation and disability severity. The evidence …
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possible source of additional needs: disability. Using two UK household surveys, we seek to establish whether there are extra … costs of living associated with disability, and to quantify them using the ¿standard of living¿ approach. The underlying … theory is that a household¿s standard of living is a function of income and needs. The extra costs of disability can be …
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caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …
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It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty. Current concerns with the extent and distribution of social capital as both a measure of a good society and as means to upward mobility also emphasise the importance of social...
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-existing disadvantage among those who become disabled (a ¿selection¿ effect), the effect of disability onset itself, and the effects … associated with remaining disabled post-onset. We show that employment rates fall with disability onset, and continue to fall the … longer a disability spell lasts, whereas average income falls sharply with onset but then recovers subsequently (though not …
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International studies have shown evidence on inequity in use of health services of different kinds, depending on the type of health care service analysed. However, equity in the access to long-term care (LTC) services has received much less attention. We investigate the determinants of several...
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