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Over the last 25 years, the Social Security Disability Insurance Program (DI) has grown dramatically. During the same … group, raising questions about the targeting of disability benefits, studies using denied applicants suggest a more modest …
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We evaluate the potential of wage subsidy programs for reducing non-employment of the disabled by exploiting a reform of the Danish Flexjob scheme targeted towards employing the long-term (partially) disabled. Firms received a salary reimbursement for all employees granted a Flexjob. We examine...
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This article presents for the first time a comparative study of the cost of disability for households in 31 European … nature of the present analysis shows these national estimates of the cost disability from a broader perspective than previous … research. One important finding of this study is that there is a significant diversity in the cost of disability across …
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This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly disadvantaged group whose labor market performances have not been well studied or documented. Using a nonparametric approach, we uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns...
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We present a theory of the relation between health and retirement that generates testable predictions regarding the interaction of health, wealth and financial incentives in retirement decisions. The theory predicts (i) that wealthier individuals (compared to poorer individuals) are more likely...
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We examine the potential causal effect of years of schooling on the use of public disability pensions by studying the … extension of compulsory schooling introduced in Norway in the 1960s. Simple regressions of disability pension receipt on … schooling suggest a very strong negative relationship between education and disability pension use, particularly in the lower …
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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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with disabilities. We do so using data from the 2015 Survey of Disability and Employment on people with disabilities who …
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. Exploratory data reveal that both union coverage and disability status increase the likelihood of requesting accommodations …
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have impacted the rise of disability rates in OECD countries. To do so, we use an RDD design to study how a JSM program … but also in the transition to disability. The RDD exploits the fact that the program was only targeted at long … unemployment to disability and no impact on the transition rate to employment or inactivity. More precisely, individuals just below …
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