We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability … insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of … work experience, and the level of disability. As a result, different people will face different benefit schedules and hence …

Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some … failure to allow for it results in overestimation of the wage elasticity of employment. The accuracy of self-reported capacity …

Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer …

Work, 1996). In addition, legislation (Disability Discrimination Act, 1995) prohibits discrimination hence firms are not … disabled and non-disabled but more for the disabled. Also, disabled at the bottom of the wage offer distribution (i.e. mainly …