Older people's participation in disability benefits: Targeting, timing and financial wellbeing

Arbeitspapier

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of disability benefits for the elderly. Using seventeen waves of panel data, it first analyses the extent to which receipt is responsive to changes in disability status. Second, it investigates the extent of delays in first receipt. Third, it compares later outcomes of recipients and non recipients, accounting for selection into the program. Results indicate that entry is highly responsive to previous changes in disability, and that the program enhances persistently recipients' financial wellbeing. However, considerable delays in receipt are also found. Beside, the evidence of characteristics unrelated to eligibility influencing the assignment mechanism raises horizontal equity concerns.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2010-23

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: General ; Health: General ; General Welfare; Well-Being ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-labor Market Discrimination
• Thema: disability benefits ; welfare participation ; panel data ; older people ; Behinderte Arbeitskräfte ; Ältere Arbeitskräfte ; Sozialtransfer ; Einkommen ; Soziale Lage ; Großbritannien

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Zantomio, Francesca
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (wo): Colchester
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/65955
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ