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Disability Expenditures in Canada, 1970-1996: Trends, Reform Efforts and a Path for the Future

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  • Michele Campolieti
  • John N. Lavis

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This paper reviews the programs - both public and private - that comprise the safety net for disabled persons in Canada. The paper has several objectives. First, we describe the trends in program expenditures in Canada between 1970 and 1996. Second, we discuss the plausible explanations for these trends and, where possible, the empirical evidence that establishes the relative importance of these explanations. Third, we discuss reform efforts implemented in the 1990s which seek to secure the financial viability of these programs. Finally, we discuss the need for additional program coordination and benefit integration in this system. If the support system for disabled persons in Canada is to move toward a more harmonized system in the future, it will be essential that these programs are examined and, if necessary, reformed as a single system rather than as separate or separable systems.

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  • Michele Campolieti & John N. Lavis, 2000. "Disability Expenditures in Canada, 1970-1996: Trends, Reform Efforts and a Path for the Future," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 26(2), pages 241-264, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:26:y:2000:i:2:p:241-264
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    1. Michele Campolieti Campolieti, 2003. "Disability insurance eligibility criteria and the labor supply of older men," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 10(3), pages 1-7.
    2. Giovanni Gallipoli & Laura Turner, 2009. "Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply," Working Papers 2009.97, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    3. Campolieti, Michele, 2001. "The Canada/Quebec pension plan disability program and the labor force participation of older men," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 70(3), pages 421-426, March.
    4. Campolieti, Michele, 2002. "Disability and the labor force participation of older men in Canada," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 9(3), pages 405-432, July.
    5. Michael Baker & Kevin Milligan, 2012. "Disability Insurance Programs in Canada," NBER Chapters, in: Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participatio, pages 327-358, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    6. Wong, Sandy, 2016. "Geographies of medicalized welfare: Spatial analysis of supplemental security income in the U.S., 2000–2010," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 9-19.

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