Disabilities (CRPD) and compares it to the broad features of contemporary Australian law and policy related to disability … medicalised, deficit-focused and welfare-based approaches to disability that have traditionally characterised Australian social … policy. Within this medical/deficit/welfare tradition – often referred to simply as the ‘medical model of disability …

expenditure. Persons with disability also have a lower probability of being employed, in the range of 20% (female) to 32% (male …). Government expenditures to address the needs of people with disability should be better calibrated to its economic consequences …

stronger features of state disability discrimination laws reduce both SSDI applications and receipt. We do not find much … evidence that age discrimination laws reduce spillovers to SSDI. These results suggest that broader and stronger disability … penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability …

discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring employment …In Europe, about one in eight people of working age report having a disability; that is, the presence of a long … social and economic costs of disability disadvantage. …