Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … removed 14.4 percent of recipients from the program and reduced benefits by 20 percent, on average. In response, employment …

Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … removed 14.4 percent of recipients from the program and reduced benefits by 20 percent, on average. In response, employment …

status in decisions to transition to self-employment. Much of the past literature has incorporated health status in models … using a discrete factor random effects model. Three hypotheses for the direct effect of health on the self-employment … decision are put forth. The indirect effect that health may have in determining one’s valuation of health insurance coverage is …

towards a need for social protection policies with a focus on health, disability, and employment in Indonesia. … recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in … to an increase in the probability of leaving employment, while recoveries increase the probability of returning to work …

on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality … of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the …

employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …