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Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset and duration effects
- Authors:
- JENKINS Stephen P., RIGG John A
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary statistics provide a potentially misleading picture of the relationship between disability and disadvantage. The reason is that economic disadvantage among currently-disabled individuals may arise from three potential sources: pre-existing disadvantage (a ‘selection’ effect), effects associated with the onset of disability, and the effects associated with remaining disabled post-onset. The authors' distinction between selection, onset and duration effects is derived from taking a longitudinal perspective to disability and disadvantage. This contrasts with previous analysis of the incomes and employment rates of disabled Britons which has mostly been based on cross-section surveys.
Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset, and duration effects
- Authors:
- JENKINS Stephen P., RIGG John A.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 33(3), July 2004, pp.479-501.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This article analyses the economic disadvantage experienced by disabled persons of working age using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We argue that there are three sources of disadvantage among disabled persons: pre-existing disadvantage among those who become disabled (a ‘selection’ effect), the effect of disability onset itself, and the effects associated with remaining disabled post-onset. We show that employment rates fall with disability onset, and continue to fall the longer a disability spell lasts, whereas average income falls sharply with onset but then recovers subsequently (though not to pre-onset levels).