This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

personal income (30% for those entering disability insurance) two years after the shock. There is no subsequent recovery in …

Disability is one of the features that differentiate individuals and groups in modern societies. People with reduced … disability and reduce the barriers faced by persons with disabilities in access to different kinds of resources, spaces and …

of disability. Subsequently, we analyse whether this specific knowledge results in higher incomes for the respondents … likely to benefit from the knowledge of formal institutions of disability. Through our analysis we have sought to expand the … literature on disability in developing countries using a unique approach that merges concepts from the social capital and …

-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by … spousal disability which is consistent with the existence of other-regarding preferences within couples. The magnitude of … effects suggests that spousal disability is about one quarter to one half as harmful as individual disability with larger …

Countries by estimating the effects of disability on employment probabilities for six Central and Eastern European Countries. We … find that disability negatively affects the employment probabilities of disabled people, especially those with severe … disabilities. The effects of disability persist even after controlling for disability benefits, signaling a predominant role for …

Disability Insurance waiting time varies from a few months to several years. We estimate the causal effect of longer …

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 …