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 …

. Research has shown that the presence of a disability can crowd out treatment for medical conditions not necessarily related to … the disability and that states that are disproportionately African-American have a lower quality of hospital care. This … paper uses quality of care data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to determine whether disability …

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 …

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 rates. These improvements were larger for those born in states with higher pre-intervention pneumonia mortality rates … exception of cognitive disabilities for men and, in some specifications, work disability for men and family income, estimates …

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 …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment … Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is …, firms exactly at the quota threshold employ 0.05 (20 % in relative terms) more disabled workers than firms just below the …

effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … associated foregone income tax revenues the actual reduction was only 148 million Euros. High-wage and healthy workers carried … the bulk of the fall in net government expenditures. Low-wage and less healthy workers generated much less government …

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 …

extends earlier analyses which show that the probability of employment is a variable, not an absolute. The disability …