What is the effect of changing eligibility criteria for disability benefits on employment? A systematic review and meta-analysis of evidence from OECD countries
Philip McHale e outros, 2020 · PLoS ONE
Meta-regression across OECD policy reforms shows that tightening disability benefit eligibility criteria has no statistically significant effect on employment rates.
Estimativa · relative risk of being employed
1,01 [0,999; 1,01]
relative risk
p: 0.107
- Desenho
- Meta-análise. Random-effects meta-regression of quasi-experimental studies
- População
- Disabled and older working-age adults across seven OECD countries, 1984–2010
- Amostra
- 35 · effect estimates from 17 studies
Onde está o número
Results > Exploratory meta-analysis; Results, subsection 'Exploratory meta-analysis', paragraph 3; and Table 3, row 'All'
Pooling effect sizes across all studies indicates an overall effect size 1.006 (95% CI 0.999–1.014).
Contexto
What changed: Systematic review of reforms altering medical or vocational eligibility rules for disability benefits. Comparison: Employment outcomes before versus after reform against comparison groups. Limits: High between-study heterogeneity (I2 = 76.6%) and synthesis relied on transforming expansion estimates into reciprocals.
Caminho no grafo
- FamíliaTransferências, subsídios e financiamento
- TipoTransferências de renda
- TipoMudança em programa de transferência
- MecanismoParticipação no mercado de trabalho
- ResultadoEmprego formal
- EixoRenda e trabalho
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Lugares do estudo
- United States · País · US
- United Kingdom · País · GB
- Canada · País · CA
- Netherlands · País · NL
- Spain · País · ES
- Sweden · País · SE
- Austria · País · AT
- Licença
- CC-BY
- Revisão
- Extraído por máquina, não revisadoExtraído por: gemini-3.8-flash, 2026-10-23