Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurcance applicants

Andreas Kostøl and Magne Mogstad

Discussion Papers from Statistics Norway, Research Department

Abstract: Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and consumption of awarded and rejected DI applicants, before and after the disability onset and the allowance decision. Next, we discuss how these descriptive results can be interpreted through the lens of alternative empirical approaches. Our analysis uses a Norwegian population panel data set with detailed information about every individual and household.

Keywords: disability insurance; labor supply; benefit substitution; disposable income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H53 I38 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03
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Journal Article: Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants (2015)
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