The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded the availability of public health insurance, decreasing the relative benefit of participating in disability programs but also lowering the cost of exiting the labor market to apply for disability program benefits. In this paper, we explore the impact of...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the data on specialist disability services available in Ireland. The paper provides a baseline utilisation profile of selected services which can be used to project future service demand and expenditure. The limitations of the currently available data in...

The economic progress of U.S. men has stagnated in recent decades, with declining labor force participation and weak growth in real earnings, particularly for less educated and non-white men. In this paper, we illuminate the broader context in which prime-age men are experiencing economic...

Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation, future labor market attachment, and human capital investments? While intergenerational concerns have figured prominently in policy debates for decades, causal evidence is scarce...

Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation, future labor market attachment, and human capital investments? While intergenerational concerns have figured prominently in policy debates for decades, causal evidence is scarce...

El presente estudio pretende aportar, de manera prospectiva, nuevos enfoques al debate y formulación de políticas de cuidados en la ciudad de Bogotá, para la atención de los grupos poblacionales con dependencia de quienes proveen los cuidados, a fin de propiciar la autonomía económica de...

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine Darstellung der Finanzierungs- und Organisationsstruktur des deutschen Sozialstaates mit einem Schwerpunkt im Bereich der Sozialversicherung. Es stellt die Organisationsformen sozialstaatlicher Verwaltungen in Grundzügen mit zahlreichen Beispielen auf Bundes-,...

This report presents an overview of social protection for persons with disabilities in Arab countries through the prism of the 2030 Agenda. Doing so, it focuses on social insurance, social assistance and health care. The report aspires to understand whether social protection is accessible to...

Uganda is internationally recognised for its extensive legal and constitutional provisions for ensuring the rights of the disabled, in addition to the presence of a number of impairment-specific disabled persons' organisations (DPOs), which provide informal advocacy and support structures. Using...

Changes in the nature of work and the family, the growing elderly population, and other developments over the past fifty years have rendered existing welfare policies largely out-of-step with economic and social conditions. While welfare state reform clearly raises important questions about...

Lange war Gesundheit in der Geschichte der Sozialen Arbeit ein zentraler Gegenstand und die Gesundheitsfürsorge der größte Arbeitsbereich. Auch heute noch sind 20-25 Prozent der Fachkräfte entweder im Sozialwesen mit gesundheitsbezogenen Aufgaben betraut oder im Gesundheitswesen tätig. Ein...