comparing US disability policy with that in other Western industrialized countries and identifying research issues that are …

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large …-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed … absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening …

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large …-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed … absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening …

Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions … lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences remain … response scales. Results suggest that more than half of the difference between the rates of self-reported work disability in …

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 …

social insurance for workplace disability. We leverage a unique workers' compensation (WC) program in Oregon that provides … rating in WC lead to under-accommodation and inefficient labor market outcomes after workplace disability. Counterfactual …-related disability but also leads to welfare gains for most workers …