This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of …

reduced their income replacement rate in order to increase employment incentives. Using new OECD data on disability benefit … associations between the income replacement rate with disability-employment and disability-poverty gaps (the difference in … disability employment gap (95%CI 0.06 to 0.53) and a 0.12 percentage point reduction in the disability poverty gap (95%CI 0.02 to …

. -- disability ; labour force participation ; dynamic panel data models …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 …