Local Level Incapacity Benefits Rolls in Britain: Correlates and Convergence

Duncan McVicar

Regional Studies, 2013, vol. 47, issue 8, 1267-1282

Abstract: McVicar D. Local level Incapacity Benefits rolls in Britain: correlates and convergence, Regional Studies . There is considerable variation across British Local Authority Districts in the proportion of the working-age population claiming incapacity benefits, ranging from 2% in Hart to 16% in Merthyr Tydfil and Easington in 2008. These claimant rates are strongly correlated with local unemployment rates and self-reported disability rates. But spatial differences in claimant rates for incapacity benefits were even greater a decade ago. This paper describes the extent of this claimant rate convergence and discusses possible explanations for it.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.607807

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