This is the text of a talk delivered at "International law, conflict and disabilities: How do international conflicts affect disabled people?", webinar organized by Bringing [Dis]Ability to the Bar and Goldsmith Chambers on 29 March 2022. It briefly raises questions about how international law...

Public disability insurance (DI) programs in many countries face pressure to reduce their generosity in order to remain sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of public DI cuts. Exploiting a unique reform...

Background: In response to increases in the number of people in receipt of disability benefits many countries have reduced their income replacement rate in order to increase employment incentives. Using new OECD data on disability benefit income replacement rates, we investigate the relationship...

Courts frequently conclude that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) cannot curb the common employer practice of firing or refusing to hire people unable to work forty or more hours per week. Even courts that occasionally require temporary part-time schedule accommodations typically do so...

This paper examines factors that are associated with area-level benefit awards for Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) as well as the work activity of DI and SSI beneficiaries. Although the Social Security Administration (SSA) cannot directly affect...

I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school participation deficit associated with disability is large,...

Barrierefreie Arbeitsplätze sowie organisatorische und personelle Unterstützung von Menschen mit Behinderungen am Arbeitsplatz sind eine wichtige Voraussetzung für die erfolgreiche betriebliche Inklusion. Dass dies häufig in den Unternehmen gelingt, zeigt der kürzlich veröffentlichte...

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 status) has gone through a significant transformation since...