TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Banks, James
AU  - Kapteyn, Arie
AU  - Smith, James P.
AU  - Soest, Arthur van
        TI  - International Comparisons of Work Disability
        PY  - 2004/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1118
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1118
        AB  - Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different
wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions
are asked, cross-country differences remain substantial. Respondent evaluations of work
limitations of hypothetical persons described in vignettes are used to identify the extent to
which differences in self-reports between countries or socio-economic groups are due to
systematic variation in the response scales. Results suggest that more than half of the
difference between the rates of self-reported work disability in the US and the Netherlands
can be explained by response scale differences. A similar methodology is used to analyze
the reporting bias that arises if respondents justify being on disability benefits by overstating
their work limiting disabilities.
        KW  - reporting bias
KW  - vignettes
KW  - work limiting disability
KW  - justification bias
        ER  -