The employment effect of stricter rules for eligibility for DI: Evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Karistrom, Anders; Palme, Marten; Svensson, Ingemar
• 署名单位: Stockholm University; Royal Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2008.04.014
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 2071-2082
• 关键词: Disability insurance; Early retirement

摘要

We study the effect of a reform of the Swedish disability insurance (DI) program whereby the special eligibility rules for workers in the age group 60 to 64 were abolished. First, we use a differences-in-differences approach to study changes in the disability take-up as compared to the age group 55 to 59. Then, we use a similar approach to study to what extent the employment effect of the reform is crowded out by an increase in the utilization of the sickpay insurance (SI) and/or the unemployment insurance (UI). In an extended analysis, we study the effect of firm closure on employment and the utilization of different labor market insurance programs in different age groups before and after the reform. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.