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severe impairments can work, led to fundamental disability policy reforms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Great Britain. In … Australia, rapid growth in disability recipiency led to more modest reforms. Here we describe the factors driving unsustainable … OECD countries, and discuss the reforms each country implemented to regain control over their cash transfer disability …
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Disability Insurance waiting time varies from a few months to several years. We estimate the causal effect of longer …
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This introduction offers a context for the articles in this thematic series by providing an overview of the programs that provide cash and in-kind supports to people with disabilities in the United States, summarizes the increasing reliance on these programs, and describes the challenges...
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In urban Philippines, the percentage of persons with disability (PWDs) participating in various government and … also low. These were some of the findings of a 2008 survey on persons with disability in selected cities in Metro Manila …. Interestingly, it focuses on the role of social networks among PWD, environmental constraints, and the type of disability the person …
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This paper examined how PWDs in the Philippines make a living and determined the factors that influenced them to select a particular labor market status and/or a source of personal income. It also analyzed the different types of work these PWDs engage in and their association with levels of...
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This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace …
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Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … and closure data collected from bankruptcy proceedings, we show that a large fraction of Norwegian disability insurance … estimate that job loss more than doubles the risk of entry to permanent disability and that displacements account for fully 28 …
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consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …
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Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act. Significant heterogeneity within the disabled group is identified …: those suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions suggest the ?penalty …
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