Journal
DEMOGRAPHY
Volume 57, Issue 5, Pages 1853-1879Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-020-00902-7
Keywords
Social security and public pensions; Work disability; Disability insurance; International comparisons; Life histories
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- Projekt DEAL
- U.S. Social Security Administration [1 DRC12000002-04]
- European Commission [QLK6-CT-2001-00360, SHARE-I3: RII-CT-2006062193, COMPARE: CIT5-CT-2005-028857, SHARELIFE: CIT4-CT-2006-028812, SHAREPREP: N 211909, SHARE-LEAP: 227822, SHARE M4: N 261982]
- German Ministry of Education and Research
- U.S. National Institute on Aging [U01_AG09740-13S2, P01_ AG005842, P01_AG08291, P30_ AG12815, R21_AG025169, Y1-AG-4553-01, IAG_BSR06-11, OGHA_04-064]
- ELSA
- National Institute on Aging [NIA U01AG009740]
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This study explores the interrelated roles of health and welfare state policies in the decision to take up disability insurance (DI) benefits due to work disability (WD), defined as the (partial) inability to engage in gainful employment as a result of physical or mental illness. We exploit the large international variation of health, self-reported WD, and the uptake of DI benefits in the United States and Europe using a harmonized data set with life history information assembled from SHARE, ELSA, and HRS. We find that the mismatch between WD and DI benefit receipt varies greatly across countries. Objective health explains a substantial share of the within-country variation in DI, but this is not the case for the variation across countries. Rather, most of the variation between countries and the mismatches are explained by differences in DI policies.
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