Effects of disability on income and income composition

Christy Pu and Huei-Fen Syu

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: Background: Income composition is highly associated with individual financial sustainability and income inequality at the macro level. Although studies have investigated the effects of disability on wage income, few studies have investigated the effects of disability on income composition or on various types of income other than wage income. Methods: We sampled 72,000 households using tax data sourced from the Taiwan Ministry of Finance in 2015. Data for each household member were traced back to 1999. We identified 23,346 individuals with disabilities and matched them with 34,145 individuals without disabilities. Eight income types were identified. A two-way fixed-effect analysis was performed to determine the effects of disability on changes in each income type. Fractional probit models were estimated to determine the effects of disability on the proportion of each income type in total income at different ages. Results: Wage income constitutes the largest proportion of income in Taiwan. The total income is estimated to increase by 10.4% (P

Date: 2023
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