Disability and Disadvantage: Selection, onset and duration effects

Stephen Jenkins and John A. Rigg

CASE Papers from Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE

Abstract: This paper 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).

Keywords: disability; selection; disadvantage; work; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J18 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-11
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Working Paper: Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset and duration effects (2003)
Working Paper: Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset, and duration effects (2003)
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