Employability trajectories among new claimants of Incapacity Benefit

Kemp, Peter A.; Davidson, Jana

doi:10.1080/01442870903429637

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“…On other occasions job loss is the result of the interaction of a number of factors Á for example, cuts in a firm's workforce combined with personal ill health, domestic responsibilities and maybe even a bullying or unsympathetic boss. In other cases claimants' health may have deteriorated after leaving their last job Á for example, Kemp and Davidson (2010) found that 18% of new IB claimants were unemployed prior to their incapacity claim. The survey asked men and women to identify the principal reason for leaving their last regular paid job.…”

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Bringing Incapacity Benefit numbers down: to what extent do women need a different approach?

et al. 2010

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The dominant narrative used to explain the big rise in Incapacity Benefit (IB) numbers across Britain is essentially about men. The collapse of male employment in older industries, mostly in the North, Scotland and Wales, led to the emergence of a cohort of mainly older, less healthy men who accessed IB instead of unemployment benefits. What this overlooks is that among the under-60s the number of women claiming IB now almost equals the number of men. In view of the long-term increase in employment opportunities for women, the similarity in IB numbers is at first sight surprising. Does this mean that bringing down the number of women on IB requires a different approach? The article draws on evidence from a survey of men and women claiming IB, in-depth interviews with claimants and professional stakeholders and secondary data analysis. The identical geography of male and female IB claimants suggests that a weak aggregate demand for labour is through time transmitted, via labour market sorting processes, to exclude from employment the most disadvantaged in terms of skills and health, irrespective of gender. The article highlights important similarities between the men and women claiming IB but also a number of distinctive issues affecting women, including the roles of increased labour market participation, lone parenthood and the impact of benefit rules. It is concluded that a package of economic regeneration and supply-side interventions will bring down the number of both men and women claiming IB.

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Section: Policy Studies 153mentioning

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“…Equally, the health and illness narratives of IB benefits recipients have remained largely hidden in qualitative research. Previous studies have focused upon employability; work motivations and the employment trajectories of recipients (for example, see Beatty et al, 2000;Kemp and Davidson, 2010;Sainsbury 4 and Davidson, 2006), with less attention paid to the health status or lived experiences of this vulnerable, marginalised and under-researched group. This paper presents the first longitudinal, mixed-methods examination of the health of longterm (three years or more) IB recipients.…”

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“…For example, Burns et al (2007) investigated the effectiveness of supported employment for people with severe mental illness, and Kellett et al (2011) examined the clinical and occupational effectiveness of condition management and Skivington et al (2010) evaluated the Pathways Advisory Service. Kemp and Davidson (2010) surveyed a national cohort of IB claimants six months after their initial claim and followed them up at twelve months but they were not using validated health questionnaires. There has also been some cross-sectional geographical work on the health of IB recipients (Norman and Bambra, 2007) which found a strong area-level correlation between IB receipt and morbidity and mortality.…”

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Shifting the Goalposts: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study of the Health of Long-Term Incapacity Benefit Recipients during a Period of Substantial Change to the UK Social Security System

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The UK social security safety net for those who are out of work due to ill health or disability has experienced significant change, most notably the abolition of Incapacity Benefit (IB) and the introduction of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). These changes have been underpinned by the assumption that many recipients are not sufficiently sick or disabled to ‘deserve’ welfare benefits – claims that have been made in the absence of empirical data on the health of recipients. Employing a unique longitudinal and mixed-methods approach, this paper explores the health of a cohort of 229 long-term IB recipients in the North East of England over an eighteen-month period, during a time of significant changes to the UK welfare state. In-depth interviews with twenty-five of the survey cohort are also presented to illustrate the lived experiences of recipients. Contributing to debates surrounding the conceptualisation of work-readiness for sick and disabled people, findings indicate IB recipients had significantly worse health than the general population, with little change in their health state over the eighteen-month study period. Qualitative data reinforced the constancy of ill health for IB recipients. Finally, the paper discusses the implications for social policy, noting how the changing nature of administrative definitions and redefinitions of illness and capacity to work can impact upon the lives of sick and disabled people.

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“…Dealing with these issues was a major part of treatment and recovery for many of the respondents and were often barriers to returning to work. Kemp and Davidson's (2010) study of the employment trajectories of a cohort of IB claimants found that improvements in health and disability were important predictors of employment at follow-up. These considerable health barriers 'must be addressed if they are ever to return to sustainable employment .…”

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Pathways back to work for problem alcohol users

et al. 2013

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The relationship between alcohol misuse, employment and unemployment is complex. Alcohol misuse is correlated with a range of other problems, including, for example, drug misuse, mental health problems and social deprivation. Together these can be a barrier to accessing and sustaining employment. The aim of this study was to explore these issues with a sample of adults in the UK who were currently accessing treatment for an alcohol problem. The study involved a systematic literature review followed by qualitative research with 53 treatment service clients and 12 professionals across 5 research sites in England, Scotland and Wales. The findings focus on the main facilitators and barriers, both individual and organisational, for returning to work identified by interviewees. Some of the facilitators and barriers identified were similar to those described in the literature for other groups of unemployed adults. Others were more specific to alcohol misusers; for example, the stigma experienced by interviewees as a result of the views of others regarding substance misuse, the nature of recovery from addiction and the challenges posed by the prevalence of coexisting mental and physical health problems. Despite the problems faced by many of the study participants, however, the majority were eager to return to work, and this desire to gain employment is discussed in the context of ongoing welfare reform in the UK

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Employability trajectories among new claimants of Incapacity Benefit

Cited by 36 publications

References 8 publications

Bringing Incapacity Benefit numbers down: to what extent do women need a different approach?

Bringing Incapacity Benefit numbers down: to what extent do women need a different approach?

Shifting the Goalposts: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Study of the Health of Long-Term Incapacity Benefit Recipients during a Period of Substantial Change to the UK Social Security System

Pathways back to work for problem alcohol users

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