Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy (Work and Welfare in Europe)

This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits. Gathering evidence from leading UK scholars, alongside comparative contributions on Sweden, Germany, New Zealand and the Netherlands, the book considers a number of questions including, how do health problems and other barriers work to combine to limit opportunities for labour market participation among claimants of IBs?; How do different local and regional economic conditions shape these individuals' opportunities and experiences of labour market exclusion?; What processes lead to transitions onto IBs and what could be done to retain people with health problems in employment?; How appropriate are the rationale, content and governance of active labour market policies that seek to promote transitions from IBs into work?; and what works in helping people claiming IBs to cope with health problems and/or make progress towards work? Front Matter....Pages i-xv Fit for Work? Representations and Explanations of the Disability Benefits ‘Crisis’ in the UK and Beyond....Pages 1-14 Disability Benefits in the UK: An Issue of Health or Jobs?....Pages 15-32 A History of Work-Disability....Pages 33-53 Are Incapacity Benefit Claimants beyond Employment? Exploring Issues of Employability....Pages 54-71 Redefining ‘Fit For Work’: Welfare Reform and the Introduction of Employment Support Allowance....Pages 72-93 A Health Problem? Health and Employability in the UK Labour Market....Pages 94-110 The Interaction of Health, Labour Market Conditions, and Long-Term Sickness Benefit Claims in a Post-industrial City: A Glasgow Case Study....Pages 111-133 The Impact of the UK’s Disability Benefit Reforms....Pages 134-152 Germany: Attempting to Activate the Long-Term Unemployed with Reduced Working Capacity....Pages 153-177 Incapacity Benefits — Change and Continuity in the Swedish Welfare State....Pages 178-198 From Dutch Disease to Dutch Fitness? Two Decades of Disability Crisis in the Netherlands....Pages 199-215 New Zealand’s Reform of Sickness Benefit and Invalid’s Benefit....Pages 216-232 Fit for Purpose? Lessons for Policies to Address the Disability Benefits ‘Crisis’....Pages 233-241 Back Matter....Pages 242-244

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