Sickness and disability benefit programmes: What is driving policy convergence?

International Social Security Review

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 41-61

  Prinz, Christopher ^a   Tompson, William ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Cash sickness benefit; Disability benefit; OECD countries; Social security reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449387051     PISSN: 0020871X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-246X.2009.01345.x     Document Type: Article

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