comparing US disability policy with that in other Western industrialized countries and identifying research issues that are …

the effects of wages or taxes on hours of work. The evidence on disability insurance and (especially) social security …

Workplace injuries and illnesses are an important cause of disability. State workers' compensation programs provide … almost $60 billion per year in cash and medical-care benefits for those injuries and illnesses. Social Security Disability … Insurance (DI) is the largest disability insurance program in the United States, with annual cash payments to disabled workers …

The disability system in the United States spends approximately $120 billion a year to keep millions of working … combines work and partial disability benefits is that it may attract new entrants onto the disability rolls. A key insight of …

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large …-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed … absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening …

helpful to understand patterns of participation in the Disability Insurance (DI) program. DI beneficiaries comprise a large … the overlap between mortality and disability is essential when trying to determine the lifetime distributional … analyses of self-reported disability status, observed mortality, and reports of DI participation from administrative data. In …

Although one-third of workers in the USA and Germany contract supplementary private disability insurance (DI), most …

Most Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) beneficiaries must complete a 5-month waiting period before they become …

This paper analyses the labour market and efficiency effects of various kinds of disability policies. It therefore … extends Pissarides (1990) model of equilibrium unemployment with disability risk and disability benefits and allows for the … improper use of disability schemes by the unemployed. The paper finds that recognition of this improper use can reverse the …