Over the last 25 years, the Social Security Disability Insurance Program (DI) has grown dramatically. During the same … period, employment rates for men with work limitations showed substantial declines in both absolute and relative terms. While … the timing of these trends suggests that the expansion of DI was a major contributor to employment decline among this …

We estimate the effects of the vocational rehabilitation (VR) program run by the Canada Pension Plan Disability Program … the literature. We find modest, and imprecisely estimated, impacts on employment outcomes for men and larger, sometimes …