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 …

workers are more likely unemployed, and a growing share of them leaves the labor market via disability retirement. Those …

-system contacts and disability addresses such measurement problems relating to self-report assessments of health status. We find a …