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 …

This paper examines the consequences of disability, identifying for the first time, the separate impacts of onsets and … recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in … towards a need for social protection policies with a focus on health, disability, and employment in Indonesia. …

We investigate the impact of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization in Norway. Plant downsizing … substantially increases the disability entry rate of workers in affected plants. Workers originally employed in plants that closed … between 1993 and 1998 were 27.9 percent more likely to utilize disability pensions in 1999 than comparable workers in non …

We estimate the magnitude of social interaction effects in disability pension participation among older workers in … Norway. Specifically, we investigate how a worker's propensity to draw disability benefits is affected by a plausibly … exogenous shock to the disability entry rate of similarly-aged workers in his or her neighborhood. The problem of omitted …

The discrete choice model of McFadden (1973) is used to quantify the desire for going into rehabilitation or disability …-time employed married women going into disability or rehabilitation are not doing so entirely voluntarily. Using a set of … has also played a significant role in increasing the number on disability and rehabilitation, while changes in disability …

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … and closure data collected from bankruptcy proceedings, we show that a large fraction of Norwegian disability insurance … estimate that job loss more than doubles the risk of entry to permanent disability and that displacements account for fully 28 …

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 …