ABSTRACT
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report makes a major contribution to the cross-national policy debate on promoting employment among people with disabilities. The report provides a comprehensive overview of data on receipt of income maintenance disability benefits, including analyses of inflow and outflow rates and the incidence of recipiency by age and gender. The absence of empirical evidence for the effectiveness of particular policies does not diminish the value of the report. The OECD report acknowledges the difficulty of identifying who are disabled and who is not, and the heterogeneity of the group. The OECD report notes that there are some examples of disability assessments that are independent of employment status and income maintenance benefit receipt. Hard-pressed administrators may develop their own low-level categories of disability based on clients' employment prospects, without these categories being subject to explicit definition and public and political scrutiny.
