New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market

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