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 …

employer-provided health insurance and employer payments for FICA taxes has contributed to the growth in observed and actual … for men working full-time and year round. She finds that the decreased availability of jobs with health benefits has had a … substantially more unequal since 1979 than the traditional measure based on wages alone indicates. …

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 …