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Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers
OECD on
November 24th 2010
Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems or disability, and too few people with reduced work capacity manage to remain in employment. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries. It also raises an apparent paradox that needs explaining: Why is it that the average health status is improving, yet large numbers of people of working age are leaving the workforce to rely on long-term sickness and disability benefits? This report, the last in the OECD series Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers, synthesises the project’s findings and explores the possible factors behind the paradox described above. It highlights the roles of institutions and policies and concludes that higher expectations and better incentives for the main actors – workers, employers, doctors, public agencies and service providers – are crucial. Based on a review of good and bad practices across OECD countries, this report suggests a series of major reforms...
Topics in this document
Welfare
Economy
Output gap
Productivity
Poverty
Health
Business cycle
Occupational stress
Labour economics
Recession
Disability
Employment
Occupational safety and health
Unemployment
Unemployment benefits
OECD
Economic growth
Sweden
Economics
Gross domestic product
Poverty threshold
Denmark
Axis powers
Finland
Social exclusion
Disease
Education
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