, requires a hiring quota for firms, and subsidizes the employment of severely disabled (SD) workers. Using a large sample of … eligible individuals we compare workers before and after acquiring legal SD-status. Unsurprisingly, we find that holding … SDstatus is associated with lower employment and earnings. However, workers holding a job when acquiring legal SD-status have …

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 …

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act. Significant heterogeneity within the disabled group is identified …: those suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions suggest the ‘penalty …

consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …

We determine the prevalence of disability and examine how a wide range of outcomes change with disability. The outcomes … we examine include employment, hours, earnings, income and consumption. We have five main findings. First, disability … been disabled at least once during his working years and a nearly 40 percent chance of experiencing a chronic disability …