Stories about disability are heavily shaped by the narratives offered by medicine and society. Those narratives enact …

as in many other countries. This research brief from Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy profiles the U …’s largest disability program. Its key elements are a series of compulsory work-focused interviews, as well as a range of …

Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some …

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 …

unionized jobs. This lower hiring rate more than offsets the greater job retention of unionized workers with disabilities. Given … jobs with union protections. Overall, in the union context, workers with disabilities appear more likely to be "last hired …," but less likely to be "first fired." We also find that a union wage premium of 29.8% for workers with disabilities is …

disability benefits, and a locally-administered means-tested system of social care. Evidence on how the combination of the two … systems targets those in most need is lacking. We estimate a latent factor structural equation model of disability and receipt … of one or both forms of support. The model integrates the measurement of disability and its influence on receipt of state …