Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some … individuals capable of work. A model in which both a capacity and a desire for work are necessary conditions for employment is … failure to allow for it results in overestimation of the wage elasticity of employment. The accuracy of self-reported capacity …

We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability … insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of … work experience, and the level of disability. As a result, different people will face different benefit schedules and hence …

consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …, the DDA has had no impact on the employment rate of disabled people or possibly worsened it. Possible reasons for this are …

? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …

This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …

Ill-health can be expected to reduce employment and income. But are the effects sustained over time? Do they differ … across the income distribution? And are there spillover effects on the employment and income of the spouse? We use matching …, on employment and income up to six years after the health shock using linked Dutch hospital and tax register data. On …

in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and … working time from fulltime to part-time employment. …

During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western … long lasting positive effect on the employment participation and productivity of people with disabilities. …

. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment rates, but a high proportion of non-workers say that they are not working … through disability. In general, the low generosity of out-of-work benefits means that positive incentives to work exist for …