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The paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BPC, which stands for Benefício de Prestação Continuada in Portuguese), an unconditional cash transfer to the elderly or to extremely poor individuals with disabilities. The information used in the assessment stems from...
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deteriorates physical health, thus increasing the worker's probability of claiming disability insurance benefits. …
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work capacity, and disability retirement is increasing. Despite this, studies on the effects of policies aimed at enhancing … disabilities, in terms of employment and disability retirement. By using inverse probability weighting applied to rich Swedish … through the disability insurance program was somewhat less common among participants. Moreover, using a broader employment …
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unique feature of South Korean Disability Insurance (DI), where award rules are based solely on an applicant’s medical …
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history of disability or major chronic health condition at baseline. A latent variable structural equation model is used to … characteristics, in determining the individual's disability state and health service utilisation five years later. We find that … baseline health affects future health service utilisation very strongly, via functional disability as a mediating outcome. Our …
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penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability … Insurance (SSDI) applications and receipt by making SSDI relatively more generous. We explore if stronger disability and age … disability, where only a medically diagnosed condition is required to be covered under state law, significantly reduces SSDI …
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Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
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-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus … year of birth, the incidence of any disability, locomotor disability and polio-related disability declined by 61.4%, 57 …
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This paper provides the first long-run assessment of adolescent alcohol control policies on later-life health and labor market outcomes. Our analysis exploits cross-state variation in the rollout of "Zero Tolerance" (ZT) Laws, which set strict alcohol limits for drivers under age 21 and led to...
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Could the industrialization reduce social inequalities? We use the rise of office employment in the early 20th century as a historical experiment to study the effect of technological change on labor market access for vulnerable groups. In regions with industries that were strongly connected to...
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