New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market.

Intro -- New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market -- Introduction -- Content of the Special Issue -- References -- 1 Assessing the Evidence Base on Health, Employability and the Labour Market - Lessons for Activation in the UK -- Introduction -- Assessing the Evidence Base: Factors behind Concentrations of Disability Claiming -- Health and disability-related barriers -- Employability-related barriers -- Labour market barriers -- Assessing the Policy Agenda: Welfare-to-Work for People on Disability Benefits in the UK and Lessons from Abroad -- Current policy in the UK -- Lessons from abroad: current policy in Denmark -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Note -- References -- 2 Disability Benefits in an Age of Austerity -- Introduction -- Defining 'disability benefits' -- The Rise in Disability Claimant Numbers -- Overall trends -- Gender -- Geography -- Profile of Claimants -- Explaining the Increase -- Welfare Reform -- Impact of the Reforms -- Shifting the boundaries -- Local and regional impact -- Impact on employment -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- 3 From Impairment to Incapacity - Educational Inequalities in Disabled Peoples Ability to Work -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Methodology -- Results -- Using flexibility -- Employer adjustments -- Adjusting demands -- Changing job -- Choice and constraint -- Discussion -- Findings -- Implications -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Supporting Information -- 4 'Keeping meself to meself' - How Social Networks Can Influence Narratives of Stigma and Identity for Long-term Sickness Benefits Recipients -- Introduction -- Methods -- Findings -- The importance of social networks - family and family.

Case study: the Wellington Mens Group -- Fractured relationships -- Stigma, Networks and the Community: 'keeping meself to meself' -- Welfare and the neighbourhood -- Missing 'the craic': The Social Side of Working -- Discussion and Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5 Measuring the Impacts of Health Conditions on Work Incapacity - Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey* -- Introduction -- Data -- Methods -- Empirical strategy -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 6 The Influence of Presenting Health Condition on Eventual Return to Work for Individuals Receiving Health-Related Welfare Benefits* -- Introduction -- Method -- Organizational context -- Intervention -- Design -- Participants -- Measures -- Defining outcomes -- Analysis strategy -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 7 A Review of Health-related Support Provision within the UK Work Programme - Whats on the Menu? -- Introduction -- Pathways to Work -- Pathways to Work Condition Management Programme -- Work Programme -- Methods -- Documentary sources -- Review and synthesis approach -- Findings -- Work Programme theory and assumptions -- Work Programme Provision: Supporting Claimants Health-related Needs -- Prominence of health -- Assessment and claimants' Work Programme journey -- Personal advisers -- Health-focused interventions -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8 Supporting the UKs Workless - An International Comparative Perspective -- Introduction -- Comparative Analyses -- Literature Review and Theory -- Policy Choices and Contexts -- Reforming Social Security: A Citizens Basic Income -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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