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
New perspectives on health, disability, welfare and the labour market by Colin Lindsay. ISBN 9781119145509. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.