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| Title: | | International Comparisons of Work Disability  |
| Authors: | | Banks, James Kapteyn, Arie Smith, James P. van Soest, Arthur |
| Issue Date: | | 2004 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 1118 |
| Abstract: | | Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences remain substantial. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of hypothetical persons described in 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. Results suggest that more than half of the difference between the rates of self-reported work disability in the US and the Netherlands can be explained by response scale differences. A similar methodology is used to analyze the reporting bias that arises if respondents justify being on disability benefits by overstating their work limiting disabilities. |
| Subjects: | | work limiting disability vignettes reporting bias justification bias |
| JEL: | | C81 I12 J28 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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