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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.
Transforming disability into ability: policies to promote work and income security for disabled people
- Author:
- ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Publisher:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 219p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Paris
The OECD’s report makes a major contribution to the cross-national policy debate on promoting employment among people with disabilities. The report provides a comprehensive overview of data on receipt of income maintenance disability benefits, including analyses of inflow and outflow rates and the incidence of recipiency by age and gender. These data are accompanied by concise and insightful explanations of the great variety of institutional and administrative factors that can influence income maintenance disability benefit receipt, including availability of other benefits, linkages between sickness and disability benefits, partial awards, rules on severity of disablement and the impact of contribution requirements and means tests. The report also contains a number of policy recommendations, particularly about measures which might be adopted to promote employment among people receiving disability income maintenance benefits The report defines what it sees as a consensus around the desirability of promoting paid employment among people with disabilities, invoking developments in OECD countries as well as supra-national agreements in support of this position.
Being and becoming: social exclusion and the onset of disability
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Publisher:
- ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion. London School of Economics
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 73p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
It is well known that many disabled people are out of work and living in poverty. But little is understood about the process of becoming disabled: who is most at risk, how it affects their income, and the impact on the rest of the family. This study, seeks to unpick the relationship between the onset of disability and social exclusion for people of working age. People in the poorest fifth of the income distribution are two-and-a-half times more likely to become disabled during a year than those in the top fifth. There is a steep gradient in risk of onset according to other indicators of disadvantage, for example educational qualifications or occupational group. This means the average fall in income associated with becoming disabled is less than might be expected, because many are already on a low income. For people not initially in employment, greater benefit entitlement can result in a small overall increase in income: an average of £17 per week for couples (2003 prices). Someone becoming disabled also affects other members of the household. In single-earner couples, even where it is not the earner who becomes disabled, one in five leave employment. In some cases this is to take on new caring responsibilities
Developing social firms in the UK: a contribution to identifying good practice
- Authors:
- SECKER Jenny, DASS Sandya, GROVE Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(5), August 2003, pp.659-674.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Social firms and related enterprises are developing rapidly in the UK as a means of providing employment for disabled people. This study examined the kind of enterprise that will best meet the aspirations of disabled people. A telephone survey identified the range of enterprises describing themselves as social firms, and examined their development and operation. Alongside the survey, focus groups with disabled people and interviews with carers explored perspectives on the values that should underpin social firms. The results suggest that indicators of good practice include: user/worker participation in the firm's development and operation; the availability of expert advice to enable informed choice about payment, with payment at the minimum wage rates or higher for those who choose this; opportunities for workers to develop to their full potential; a workforce comprising disabled and non-disabled workers; the involvement of carers and local socio-economic agencies in developing the social firm.
Benefit protection
- Author:
- SCOTT Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.9.03, 2003, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the complexities of involving users with mental health problems, learning difficulties and disabilities in service planning if their state benefits are to be protected. Discusses areas of relevant legislation: the benefits system, the Minimum Wage Act 1998, and employment law.