In Search of Effective Disability Policy
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Contents
Acknowledgement
1 Disability Policies Under Pressure
The welfare state under pressure
Similar pressures – different problems
Welfare states and disability programmes
The labour market and the disability pathway
The consequences of exogenous pressures
Disability programmes and the disability pathway
Disability policy responses
The objective of this book
How to study the outcomes of disability policies
The structure of this book
2 The Integration of Disabled People:What Do We Know?
Clinical studies
Economic studies
Public policy studies
Sociological studies
Summary and conclusions
3 Bringing the Pieces Together:A Multidisciplinary Approach to Work Disability
Choosing the approach
A model for the labour market integration of disabled people
The labour market attachment of workers with health problems
Discussion and critique
4 Economic Miracles Bypassing Disabled People
Fromeconomic growth to crisis
Crisis management: paid exit and active labour market measures
Fromcrisis to recovery
5 Dutch Disability Reforms:Redefining Responsibilities
A sick nation
Ineffective changes
The beginning of a reform
Redefining responsibilities
Conclusion
6 Danish Disability Policy:Small Steps,Big Change?
Danish disability policy in the 1980s
Defects in Danish disability policy
Changes during the 1980s: crisis management
Changes during the 1990s: increased emphasis on activation
Dutch and Danish disability policies: different developments
Dutch and Danish disability policies: different principles
Conclusion
7 Different Routes to Integration
The data
Dismissals during sick leave
The supply of vocational rehabilitation measures
Income protection during sick leave
Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
8 Different Policies – Different Outcomes
The return to work of long-term sick-listed workers
Dutch and Danish disability policies: a question of different rights?
Conclusion
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
9 Too Much and Too Little:Employers’Responsibility in Denmark and the Netherlands
The disability figures reconsidered: an overestimated disability crisis
Policy changes – success or failure?
Explaining the developments
Disability policies in the context of future challenges
Towards a more effective disability policy
Tables and Figures
Notes
References
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
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