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In Europe, about one in eight people of working age report having a disability; that is, the presence of a long … discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring employment … social and economic costs of disability disadvantage. …
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Countries by estimating the effects of disability on employment probabilities for six Central and Eastern European Countries. We … find that disability negatively affects the employment probabilities of disabled people, especially those with severe … disabilities. The effects of disability persist even after controlling for disability benefits, signaling a predominant role for …
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Disability Insurance waiting time varies from a few months to several years. We estimate the causal effect of longer …
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severe impairments can work, led to fundamental disability policy reforms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Great Britain. In … Australia, rapid growth in disability recipiency led to more modest reforms. Here we describe the factors driving unsustainable … OECD countries, and discuss the reforms each country implemented to regain control over their cash transfer disability …
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We estimate the effects of the vocational rehabilitation (VR) program run by the Canada Pension Plan Disability Program …
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Over the last 25 years, the Social Security Disability Insurance Program (DI) has grown dramatically. During the same … group, raising questions about the targeting of disability benefits, studies using denied applicants suggest a more modest …
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This introduction offers a context for the articles in this thematic series by providing an overview of the programs that provide cash and in-kind supports to people with disabilities in the United States, summarizes the increasing reliance on these programs, and describes the challenges...
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We evaluate the potential of wage subsidy programs for reducing non-employment of the disabled by exploiting a reform of the Danish Flexjob scheme targeted towards employing the long-term (partially) disabled. Firms received a salary reimbursement for all employees granted a Flexjob. We examine...
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This article presents for the first time a comparative study of the cost of disability for households in 31 European … nature of the present analysis shows these national estimates of the cost disability from a broader perspective than previous … research. One important finding of this study is that there is a significant diversity in the cost of disability across …
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One of the key challenges of social policy in Poland in the early 21st century is to adapt its management to the requirements of a service economy. Essential conditions for the mixed economy of welfare have been already created after adjustments of the subsystems of national social policy during...
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