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Why are Disability Rates for Older Working-Age Adults in Northern Ireland So High?

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  • Anne Devlin

    (Economic and Social Research Institute)

  • Declan French

    (Queen's University Belfast)

  • Duncan McVicar

    (Queen's University Belfast and IZA, Bonn)

Abstract

Northern Ireland has substantially higher rates of disability and disability benefit receipt than England, despite a common institutional context. This paper exploits newly available data from the NICOLA and ELSA surveys to examine potential health and labour market explanations for this gap, specifically among older working-age people. Observable differences in health and labour markets are sufficient to explain the gap in self-reported activity-limiting disability, but only half of the gap in worklimiting disability and income-replacement disability benefit receipt, and only one-third of the gap in additional costs disability benefit receipt. Possible reasons for these remaining unexplained gaps are discussed.

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  • Anne Devlin & Declan French & Duncan McVicar, 2023. "Why are Disability Rates for Older Working-Age Adults in Northern Ireland So High?," The Economic and Social Review, Economic and Social Studies, vol. 54(1), pages 1-28.
    • Handle: RePEc:eso:journl:v:54:y:2023:i:1:p:1-28
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