In Search of Effective Disability Policy: Comparing the Developments and Outcomes of the Dutch and Danish Disability Policies (Amsterdam University Press - Changing Welfare States)

Contents - 6[-]Acknowledgement - 10[-]1 Disability Policies Under Pressure - 12[-] The welfare state under pressure - 13[-] Similar pressures - different problems - 15[-] Welfare states and disability programmes - 19[-] The labour market and the disability pathway - 20[-] The consequences of exogenous pressures - 21[-] Disability programmes and the disability pathway - 22[-] Disability policy responses - 25[-] The objective of this book - 26[-] How to study the outcomes of disability policies - 27[-] The structure of this book - 28[-]2 The Integration of Disabled People:What Do We Know? - 32[-] Clinical studies - 32[-] Economic studies - 37[-] Public policy studies - 42[-] Sociological studies - 47[-] Summary and conclusions - 52[-]3 Bringing the Pieces Together:A Multidisciplinary Approach to Work Disability - 54[-] Choosing the approach - 54[-] A model for the labour market integration of disabled people - 56[-] The labour market attachment of workers with health problems - 63[-] Discussion and critique - 63[-]4 Economic Miracles Bypassing Disabled People - 66[-] Fromeconomic growth to crisis - 66[-] Crisis management: paid exit and active labour market measures - 68[-] Fromcrisis to recovery - 73[-]5 Dutch Disability Reforms:Redefining Responsibilities - 76[-] A sick nation - 77[-] Ineffective changes - 83[-] The beginning of a reform - 84[-] Redefining responsibilities - 86[-] Conclusion - 90[-]6 Danish Disability Policy:Small Steps,Big Change? - 94[-] Danish disability policy in the 1980s - 94[-] Defects in Danish disability policy - 97[-] Changes during the 1980s: crisis management - 99[-] Changes during the 1990s: increased emphasis on activation - 101[-] Dutch and Danish disability policies: different developments - 105[-] Dutch and Danish disability policies: different principles - 106[-] Conclusion - 110[-]7 Different Routes to Integration - 112[-] The data - 113[-] Dismissals during sick leave - 115[-] The supply of vocational rehabilitation measures - 119[-] Income protection during sick leave - 122[-] Conclusion - 125[-] Appendix A - 127[-] Appendix B - 129[-]8 Different Policies - Different Outcomes - 136[-] The return to work of long-term sick-listed workers - 137[-] Dutch and Danish disability policies: a question of different rights? - 146[-] Conclusion - 148[-] Appendix C - 151[-] Appendix D - 155[-] Appendix E - 157[-]9 Too Much and Too Little:Employers\'Responsibility in Denmark and the Netherlands - 160[-] The disability figures reconsidered: an overestimated disability crisis - 161[-] Policy changes - success or failure? - 163[-] Explaining the developments - 168[-] Disability policies in the context of future challenges - 174[-] Towards a more effective disability policy - 176[-]Tables and Figures - 180[-]Notes - 182[-]References - 188[-]Index of Subjects - 202[-]Index of Names - 206