comparing US disability policy with that in other Western industrialized countries and identifying research issues that are … labor supply disincentives. We document these incentive effects in US policy, and review the research studies that estimate … the response of disabled people to these incentives. In addition to income support policy, we also describe public policy …

the effects of wages or taxes on hours of work. The evidence on disability insurance and (especially) social security …

' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program …. First, I find that while spousal labor supply responses to husbands' disability are small, wives spend a sizable amount of … households that incorporates husbands' disability status, wives' time allocation choices, health state dependent utility, and the …

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

participation and hours worked by the 1930s cohort well. The observed policy changes in normal retirement age, the earnings test … by the 1950s cohort. Additional policy experiments suggest that postponing retirement age have little effect on older …

We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability … benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit … generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy variation using an RD design to estimate the effect of increasing …

We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability … benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit … generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy variation using an RD design to estimate the effect of increasing …

deteriorates physical health, thus increasing the worker's probability of claiming disability insurance benefits. …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

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. …