Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: P. Jenkins, Stephen Author-Name: A. Rigg, John Title: Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset, and duration effects Abstract: This paper analyses the economic disadvantage experienced by disabled persons of working-age using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We argue that there are three sources of disadvantage among disabled persons: pre-existing disadvantage among those who become disabled (a 'selection' effect), the effect of disability onset itself, and the effects associated with remaining disabled post-onset. We show that employment rates fall with disability onset, and continue to fall the longer a disability spell lasts, whereas average income falls sharply with onset but then recovers subsequently (though not to pre-onset levels). Creation-Date: 20030801 Number: 2003-18 Publication-Status: published File-URL: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/files/working-papers/iser/2003-18.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ese:iserwp:2003-18