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1023892
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b778262
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Sickness, disability and work : : breaking the barriers : a synthesis of findings across OECD coutnries.
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| Publication Statement
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Paris :: OECD,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (165 pages) :: color illustrations
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| ISBN
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1282915193
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: 6612915196
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: 9264088857
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: 9781282915190
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: 9786612915192
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: 9789264088856
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9264088849
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9789264088849
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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The economic context for disability policy. -- Key trends and outcomes in sickness and disability. -- The direction of recent disability policy reforms. -- Transforming disability benefits into an employment instrument -- Activating employers and medical professionals. -- Getting the right services to the right people at the right time.
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| Abstract
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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 are needed to promote employment of people with health problems. The report examines a number of critical policy choices between: tightening inflows and raising outflows from disability benefit, and promoting job retention and new hiring of people with health problems. It questions the need for distinguishing unemployment and disability as two distinct contingencies, emphasises the need for a better evidence base, and underlines the challenges for policy implementation.
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Disability insurance claimants-- OECD countries.
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Labor market-- OECD countries.
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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Diagnosis.
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Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures.
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Disability Evaluation.
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Economics.
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Financing, Government.
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Financing, Organized.
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Health Care Economics and Organizations
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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services
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Health Services Administration.
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Health Services.
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Human Activities.
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Income.
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Insurance, Disability.
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Insurance.
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Organization and Administration.
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Personnel Management.
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Population Characteristics.
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Rehabilitation, Vocational.
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Rehabilitation.
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Salaries and Fringe Benefits.
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Sick Leave.
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Social Sciences.
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Socioeconomic Factors.
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Sociology.
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Therapeutics.
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Work.
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Workers' Compensation.
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Disability insurance claimants.
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Labor market.
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Work-- psychology.
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OECD countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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331.59
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| LC Classification
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HD7256.O4S535 2010eb
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HD 5115.5
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| Added Entry
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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| Parallel Title
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Breaking the barriers : a synthesis of findings across OECD countries
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