An Analysis of the Cost of Disability across Europe using the Standard of Living Approach

José Ignacio Antón, Francisco Braña () and Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo

No 2015-08, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: This article presents for the first time a comparative study of the cost of disability for 26 European countries. Using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2008 and two alternative methodologies, one based on how difficult it is for households to make ends meet and the other related to the access of households to a set of services and assets, we present estimates of the extra costs of disability for households. The comparative nature of the present analysis demonstrates these national estimates of cost disability from a broader perspective. Also discussed are the possible explanatory reasons for the pattern of costs across countries found in this analysis.

Keywords: disability; cost; standard of living; income; welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2015-11
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