TY  - JOUR
AU  - Banks,James
AU  - Kapteyn,Arie
AU  - Smith,James P.
AU  - Soest,Arthur van
TI  - Work Disability is a Pain in the *****, Especially in England, The Netherlands, and the United States
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11558
PY  - 2005
Y2  - August 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11558
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11558.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James Banks
University College London
E-Mail: j.banks@ucl.ac.uk

Arie Kapteyn
RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA  90407-2138
Tel: (310) 393-0411 x 7973
E-Mail: arie_kapteyn@rand.org

James P. Smith
RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
Tel: 310-451-6925
E-Mail: smith@rand.org

Arthur van Soest
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
E-Mail: avas@uvt.nl
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2005-08-15
AB  - This paper investigates the role of pain in determining self-reported work disability in the US, the UK and The Netherlands. Even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences in reported work disability remain substantial. In the US and the Netherlands, respondent evaluations of work limitations of hypothetical persons described in pain 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.
ER  -