Disability Benefits, Welfare Reform and Employment Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Fit for Work? Representations and Explanations of the Disability Benefits ‘Crisis’ in the UK and Beyond

   • Colin Lindsay, Donald Houston

   Pages 1-14

3. Disability Benefits in the UK: An Issue of Health or Jobs?

   • Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill

   Pages 15-32

4. A History of Work-Disability

   • John Macnicol

   Pages 33-53

5. Are Incapacity Benefit Claimants beyond Employment? Exploring Issues of Employability

   • Anne Green, Ian Shuttleworth

   Pages 54-71

6. Redefining ‘Fit For Work’: Welfare Reform and the Introduction of Employment Support Allowance

   • Helen Barnes, Paul Sissons

   Pages 72-93

7. A Health Problem? Health and Employability in the UK Labour Market

   • Jon Warren, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Clare Bambra

   Pages 94-110

8. The Interaction of Health, Labour Market Conditions, and Long-Term Sickness Benefit Claims in a Post-industrial City: A Glasgow Case Study

   • David Webster, Judith Brown, Ewan B. Macdonald, Ivan Turok

   Pages 111-133

9. The Impact of the UK’s Disability Benefit Reforms

   • Christina Beatty, Steve Fothergill, Donald Houston

   Pages 134-152

10. Germany: Attempting to Activate the Long-Term Unemployed with Reduced Working Capacity

    • Martin Brussig, Matthias Knuth

    Pages 153-177

11. Incapacity Benefits — Change and Continuity in the Swedish Welfare State

    • Rickard Ulmestig

    Pages 178-198

12. From Dutch Disease to Dutch Fitness? Two Decades of Disability Crisis in the Netherlands

    • Rik van Berkel

    Pages 199-215

13. New Zealand’s Reform of Sickness Benefit and Invalid’s Benefit

    • Neil Lunt, Daniel Horsfall

    Pages 216-232

14. Fit for Purpose? Lessons for Policies to Address the Disability Benefits ‘Crisis’

    • Donald Houston, Colin Lindsay

    Pages 233-241

15. Back Matter

    Pages 242-244

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This book aims to tackle the issues that are central to understanding and addressing one of the most important employment policy problems facing governments in the UK and beyond: the high number of people of working age claiming 'disability' or 'incapacity' benefits.

• employment
• employment policy
• Germany
• government
• labor market
• Policy
• reforms
• Welfare
• Welfare reform
• Welfare State
• work

• University of Strathclyde, UK

  Colin Lindsay

• University of St Andrews, UK

  Donald Houston

Clare Bambra, Durham University, UK Helen Barnes, Independent Social Policy Researcher and Consultant Christina Beatty, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Judith Brown, University of Glasgow, UK Martin Brussig, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Steve Fothergill, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Kayleigh Garthwaite, Durham University, UK Anne Green, University of Warwick, UK Daniel Horsfall, University of York, UK Matthias Knuth, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Neil Lunt, University of York, UK Ewan B. Macdonald, University of Glasgow, UK John Macnicol, London School of Economics, UK Ian Shuttleworth, Queen's University, Northern Ireland Paul Sissons, The Work Foundation, UK Ivan Turok, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Rickard Ulmestig, University of Jönköping, Sweden Rik van Berkel, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Jon Warren, Durham University, UK David Webster, University of Glasgow, UK

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