significantly more likely to experience moderate or severe disability due to poor mental health than non-recipients, with rates … particularly elevated among clients receiving disability, lone parent and unemployment payments. To a large extent, these elevated … rates of mental disability are consistent with the pattern of financial hardship and demographic characteristics such as …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We estimate the magnitude of social interaction effects in disability pension participation amongolder workers in … instrument for the disability entry rate among one’spreviously employed neighbors... …

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 …

bankruptcy proceedings, we show that a large fraction of Norwegian disability insurance claims can be directly attributed to job … permanent disability retirement and accounts for one quarter of new disability insurance claims. Firm profitability and … tightness of the local labor market also significantly affect employees' likelihood of disability program entry, and the adverse …