The UK has enacted a number of reforms to the structure of disability benefits that has made
it a major case study for other countries thinking of reform. The introduction of Incapacity …

Objectives To investigate if favourable psychosocial working conditions can reduce the risk
of work exit and specifically for workers with chronic disease. Methods Men and women …

This paper focuses on the relation between health shocks and the onset of a disability and
employment outcomes. We estimate an event-history model using data from the British …

Why are some welfare state programmes more susceptible to retrenchment than others?
This article examines why the major disability benefit programme in the United States has …

This paper estimates how much additional work capacity there might be among men and
women aged between 55 and 74 in the United Kingdom, given their health, and how this …

Population aging in Europe calls for an overall rise in the age of retirement. However, most
observers agree that the latter should be differentiated to account for different individuals' …

Since 1995, employment rates of men in their 50s and 60s have steadily increased,
following a long period of decline from the late 1960s. At the same time, employment rates of …

Background Inequalities between different areas in the United Kingdom (UK) according to
health and employment outcomes are well-documented. Yet it is unclear which health …

We show the extent to which public insurance and self‐insurance mitigate the cost of health
shocks that limit the ability to work. We use consumption data from the UK to estimate …

Employment has risen by more and unemployment has risen less than expected, given the
path of output. Nevertheless, long-term and youth unemployment and involuntary part-time …