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The policy challenge:
Disability policy has become a key policy area in most OECD countries. Disabling medical conditions are on the rise, causing problems not only for individuals but also for the labour market and social policies. More and more people are relying on disability and sickness benefits as their main source of income, and employment rates of persons with disabilities are low. Close monitoring of disability policy outcomes and reforms are crucial.
What's new ?
October 2008: Preparatory background notes to thematic reviews from Denmark, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands, from national Ministries.
June 2008: Seminar on Disability in Ireland, jointly organised by the OECD and the Irish Department of Social and Family Affairs, to discuss the main findings of Vol. 3.
April 2008: Modernising Sickness and Disability Policy. The ongoing thematic review on sickness and disability policies suggests that each country has interesting elements of policy to offer which other countries can learn from.
December 2007: Release of Vol. 2 covering Australia, Luxembourg, Spain and the United Kingdom
September 2007: Preparatory background notes to thematic reviews from Australia and Luxembourg, from national Ministries.
June 2007: Seminar on Disability in Luxembourg, jointly organised by the OECD and the Luxembourg Government, to discuss the main findings of Vol. 2.
March 2007: New Ways of Addressing Partial Work Capacity. The ongoing thematic review on sickness and disability policies suggests that the way countries are dealing with people with a partially-reduced work capacity is changing.
Publications:
(Below links to various publications give access to: Press release & Country notes, a selection of tables and charts, how to obtain the publication or to browse it via the online bookshop)
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Transforming Disability into Ability, published in 2003, provides a systematic analysis of a wide array of labour market and social protection programmes aimed at people with disabilities.
Examining the relationship between policies and outcomes across 20 OECD countries, it highlights the dilemmas of disability policy and identified successful policy elements.
It concludes that a promising new disability policy approach should move closer to the philosophy of unemployment programmes, with a focus on activation, tailored early intervention, work incentives and mutual obligations.
- see also a selection of tables and charts.
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Other ouputs:
June 2005 - the OECD has launched a new country review on "Reforming Sickness and Disability Policies to Improve Work Incentives" in order to examine national policies to control and reduce the inflow into sickness and disability benefit programmes and to assist those beneficiaries who want to reintegrate into the labour market. The objective is to reach a better understanding of the mechanisms and policies that lead a person with a health problem to withdraw from the labour market.
For other disability-related staff paper/presentations, click here.
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