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

Colin Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde Business School, UK.Bent Greve is a Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark.Ignazio Cabras is a Reader in Economics, Business and Management at Newcastle Business School, UK.Nick Ellison is Professor and Head of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York, UK.Stephen Kellett is a Clinical Psychologist at the University of Sheffield, UK.

• List of Contributors viiIntroduction: New Perspectives on Health, Disability, Welfare and the Labour Market 1Colin Lindsay, Bent Greve, Ignazio Cabras, Nick Ellison and Stephen Kellett1 Assessing the Evidence Base on Health, Employability and the Labour Market – Lessons for Activation in the UK 5Colin Lindsay, Bent Greve, Ignazio Cabras, Nick Ellison and Stephen Kellett2 Disability Benefits in an Age of Austerity 25Christina Beatty and Steve Fothergill3 From Impairment to Incapacity – Educational Inequalities in Disabled People’s Ability to Work 47Ben Baumberg4 ‘Keeping meself to meself’ – How Social Networks Can Influence Narratives of Stigma and Identity for Long-term Sickness Benefits Recipients 65Kayleigh Garthwaite5 Measuring the Impacts of Health Conditions on Work Incapacity – Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey 81William Whittaker and Matt Sutton6 The Influence of Presenting Health Condition on Eventual Return to Work for Individuals Receiving Health-Related Welfare Benefits 107Fiona Purdie and Stephen Kellett7 A Review of Health-related Support Provision within the UK Work Programme – What’s on the Menu? 127Jenny Ceolta-Smith, Sarah Salway and Angela Mary Tod8 Supporting the UK’s Workless – An International Comparative Perspective 151Mike Danson, Ailsa McKay and Willie SullivanIndex 175