-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by … spousal disability which is consistent with the existence of other-regarding preferences within couples. The magnitude of … effects suggests that spousal disability is about one quarter to one half as harmful as individual disability with larger …

among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10 … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … savings as they either continue to retire early via disability pensions or bridge the gap to regular retirement by drawing …

The Productivity Commission inquiry report — Disability Care and Support — was released on 10 August 2011. Current … disability support arrangements are inequitable, underfunded, fragmented, and inefficient and give people with a disability … governments have performed much better than others, and there are pockets of success, overall, no disability support arrangements …

momentos de crisis. The current economic crisis has reduced substantially the number of employment. However, statistics from … the Public Employment Service shows an increase in the number of jobs contracts signed by disabled people. The main reason … in that Sheltered Employment Centers have raised largely their contracting. On the opposite, ordinary firms have reduced …

older workers leave employment by 3.9 months. This increase is mainly due to a sharp drop in disability pension enrolment …A majority of older Finns withdraw from employment via early retirement schemes years before the statutory retirement … criteria for disability pension eligibility. The findings imply that these reforms have jointly raised the average age at which …

entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …

Canadian disability policy has come a long way in the past century. However, in contrast with the evidence that … disability is not permanent for most, current disability support programs still carry the old static view of permanent disability … force exposure is crucial for better return-to-work outcomes for persons with a disability. Without labour force exposure …

entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …

entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …