New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market (Paperback)

List 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