LABOR-FORCE PARTICIPATION BY DISABLED MALES IN CANADA

The disabled are not necessarily unemployable, although about a quarte r of them report they are completely prevented from working. A disable d person's decision to work or not depends on a variety of psychologic al, social and economic, as well as health, factors. This paper asks: Do Canadian disability-related insurance schemes discourage work? It m odels and measures the impact of disability benefits on the work choic e of disabled prime-age males. It finds that they amount to a signific ant work disincentive. But better yet, they likely save many disabled persons from unsuitable and/or undesirable jobs.