Executive Summary and Policy Recommendations
Chapter 1. Key Trends and Outcomes
-Employment and Unemployment of People with Disabilities
-Financial Resources of People with Disability: Income and Poverty
-Costs of Disability Schemes:Public Spending and Benefit Dependence
-Exclusion and Inclusion Errors: Disability Benefit Recipiency and Disabililty Prevalence
-Demographic Challenges: Population Ageing and Future Labour Supply Shortages
-Impact of Labour Market Requirements: Work and Health
-Conclusion
Chapter 2. Evaluating Recent and Ongoing Reforms
-Denmark: Strengthening Responsibilities for Municipalities
-Finland: Moving Away from Retirement through Disability
-Ireland: Towards Systematic Engagement with Benefit Claimants
-The Netherlands: Moving from Rights to Individual Responsibilities
-The Implications of Ageing and Ongoing Reform
Chapter 3. Into and Off Benefit: The Role of the State
-Leaving the Labour Market onto Benefits
-From Benefit back to Work
-Conclusion
Chapter 4. Job Retention and Recruitment: Involving Employers
-Labour Demand and Skill Mismatches
-Employer Responsibility for Sick Workers
-Different Ways to Simulate Job Creation and Job Retention
Chapter 5. The Individual's Perspective: Financial Incentives for Taking up Work
-The "Attraction" of Disability Benefits
-Work Incentives and Disincentives for Disability Benefit Recipients
-Conclusion
Chapter 6. Institutional Incentives, Co-operation and Governance
-Institutional Structures and Regional Outcomes
-Institutional and Financial Challenges
-Better Incentives, Co-operation and Governance
List of Acronyms