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Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022
We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … are now on disability benefits, up from 2% in 1992–93. This rise has been driven by claims for mental health and other …
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Effects of work requirements for food assistance eligibility on disability claiming
Stith, Sarah S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31
Between 2010 and 2017, 42 U.S. states added work requirements as a food assistance eligibility criterion for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs). Another U.S. public assistance program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), provides food assistance without a work requirement, along with...
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Effects of work requirements for food assistance eligibility on disability claiming
Stith, Sarah S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-31
Between 2010 and 2017, 42 U.S. states added work requirements as a food assistance eligibility criterion for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs). Another U.S. public assistance program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), provides food assistance without a work requirement, along with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550254
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Helter skelter: families, disabled children and the benefit system
Preston, Gabrielle - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126455
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Helter Skelter: Families, disabled children and the benefit system
Preston, Gabrielle - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2005
caring with employment is extremely difficult, so families are heavily reliant upon benefits. But do disability benefits … experience of applying for disability living allowance (DLA) and how they use additional benefit income. Families report that DLA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797325
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Missed opportunities? The development of human welfare in Western Europe, 1913-1950
Albarrán, Daniel Gallardo - 2017
the 8-hour working day. To measure the contribution of these aspects to broader welfare, I apply a new utility …-based framework that, contrary to previous composite indices such as the Human Development Index, allows for a welfare analysis … underestimates welfare growth significantly (up to five percent annually). Moreover, with this indicator cross-country differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669464
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Poverty and Material Deprivation among the Self-Employed in Europe: An Exploration of a Relatively Uncharted Landscape
Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive - 2017
In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in this context. With about 15 percent of European workers in self-employment this group can no longer be ignored, especially since self-employment is on the rise in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744719
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Poverty and material deprivation among the self-employed in Europe : an exploration of a relatively uncharted landscape
Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive - 2017
In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in this context. With about 15 percent of European workers in self-employment this group can no longer be ignored, especially since self-employment is on the rise in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732005
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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants
Autor, David; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer … concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143943
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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants
Autor, David; Maestas, Nicole; Mullen, Kathleen; … - 2015
Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … differences in processing speed among disability examiners to whom applicants are randomly assigned, we find that longer … concentrated among applicants awarded benefits during their initial application. A one standard deviation (2.1 month) increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481679