A crucial issue in studying social insurance programs is whether they affect work decisions through income or … Security Administration data on all new DI beneficiaries from 2001 to 2007, we document a robust income effect of DI payments … beneficiaries' earnings of twenty cents. This suggests that the income effect represents an important factor in driving DI …

earnings. The largely unstudied Disability Compensation program currently provides income and health insurance to almost four … policy, though measured income net of transfer benefits rose on average. Consistent with the relatively advanced age and …

self against the income loss of a bad event, the bad event is more likely to happen. Comparing register data from disabled … and non-disabled individuals shows that being disabled increases income in the last year before the time of disablement …. Further, more generous pension systems increase pre-disablement income even more. …

income lost. Female and younger recipients, as well as those with more subjectively defined disabilities, were able to …