Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, the Netherlands, and the United States

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James W. Banks

Institute for Fiscal Studies; The University of Manchester

Arie Kapteyn

University of Southern California - Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR); IZA Institute of Labor Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

James P. Smith

RAND Corporation; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Arthur van Soest

Tilburg University; Netspar; RAND Corporation; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

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Date Written: August 2005

Abstract

This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the US, the UK and The Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in reported work disability remain substantial. In the US and the Netherlands, respondent evaluations of work limitations of hypothetical persons described in pain vignettes are used to identify the extent to which differences in self-reports between countries or socio-economic groups are due to systematic variation in the response scales.

Suggested Citation

Banks, James W. and Kapteyn, Arie and Smith, James P. and van Soest, Arthur H. O. and van Soest, Arthur H. O., Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, the Netherlands, and the United States (August 2005). NBER Working Paper No. w11558, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=785015

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