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Book SynopsisBringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new evidence on the inter-related problems faced by disability claimants, and identifies important lessons for policy.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
Introduction: New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market 1
Colin Lindsay, Bent Greve, Ignazio Cabras, Nick Ellison and Stephen Kellett
1 Assessing the Evidence Base on Health, Employability and the Labour Market – Lessons for Activation in the UK 5
Colin Lindsay, Bent Greve, Ignazio Cabras, Nick Ellison and Stephen Kellett
2 Disability Benefits in an Age of Austerity 25
Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill
3 From Impairment to Incapacity – Educational Inequalities in Disabled People’s Ability to Work 47
Ben Baumberg
4 ‘Keeping meself to meself’ – How Social Networks Can Influence Narratives of Stigma and Identity for Long-term Sickness Benefits Recipients 65
Kayleigh Garthwaite
5 Measuring the Impacts of Health Conditions on Work Incapacity – Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey 81
William Whittaker and Matt Sutton
6 The Influence of Presenting Health Condition on Eventual Return to Work for Individuals Receiving Health-Related Welfare Benefits 107
Fiona Purdie and Stephen Kellett
7 A Review of Health-related Support Provision within the UK Work Programme – What’s on the Menu? 127
Jenny Ceolta-Smith, Sarah Salway and Angela Mary Tod
8 Supporting the UK’s Workless – An International Comparative Perspective 151
Mike Danson, Ailsa McKay and Willie Sullivan
Index 175
