Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden / Lisa Jönsson, Mårten Palme, Ingemar Svensson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jönsson, Lisa.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Palme, Mårten.

Svensson, Ingemar.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17054.

NBER working paper series no. w17054

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.

Summary:

This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality rate (measured between 1950 and 2009); (2) the prevalence of different types of health deficiencies obtained from Statistics Sweden's Survey on Living Conditions (ULF, 1975-2005); (3) the utilization of health care from the inpatient register (1968-2008). We also study the development of the relative health between disability insurance recipients and non-recipients. Finally, we study the effect of the introduction of less strict eligibility criteria for older workers in 1970 and 1972 as well as the subsequent abolishment of these rules in 1991 and 1997, respectively.

Notes:

Print version record

May 2011.