and Dutch workers have relatively low working hours. Disability is high, particularly among young individuals. We discuss …

reduced by roughly 25 percent or taxes will need to be increased by about 33 percent, or some combination to avoid benefit …

Revisiting Parsons' 1996 article about disability insurance with imperfect tagging in a two type-economy -- individuals …. Finally Parsons' model is extended to three types: able, partially disabled and disabled - adapting the model to disability … insurances allowing for more than two degrees of disability. The results are consistent with Parsons', but a complete ranking of …

through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for … almost all benefit recipients, but weak work incentives exist for those receive Housing Benefit, and for primary earners in … the benefit system, and recent reforms to the out-of-work benefits have involved toughening and extending job …

, individuals whose health is risky and heterogeneous choose to either work, or not work and apply for social security disability …