Sen (2004) has distinguished between two types of handicap that are commonly associated with disabilities, viz. an ‘earning handicap’ and a ‘conversion handicap’. In this article, these concepts are considered, extended, and developed conceptually within the framework of a Grossman-type model. This model is then used to consider how the welfare implications of disability and the attendant handicaps may be conceived. A utilitarian framework of the kind associated with conventional welfare economics is invoked, but extra-welfarist-type policies are also discussed. The article shows how the concepts of disability and handicap may be given a tractable conceptual economic basis, and how the welfare effects of social policies towards people with disabilities can usefully be analysed within the resulting framework. © 2008, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.

Connelly, L.B. (2008). Earning and Conversion Handicaps and the Welfare Economics of Disability. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISABILITY MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, 3(2), 61-67 [10.1375/jdmr.3.2.61].

Earning and Conversion Handicaps and the Welfare Economics of Disability

Connelly, Luke B.
2008

Abstract

Sen (2004) has distinguished between two types of handicap that are commonly associated with disabilities, viz. an ‘earning handicap’ and a ‘conversion handicap’. In this article, these concepts are considered, extended, and developed conceptually within the framework of a Grossman-type model. This model is then used to consider how the welfare implications of disability and the attendant handicaps may be conceived. A utilitarian framework of the kind associated with conventional welfare economics is invoked, but extra-welfarist-type policies are also discussed. The article shows how the concepts of disability and handicap may be given a tractable conceptual economic basis, and how the welfare effects of social policies towards people with disabilities can usefully be analysed within the resulting framework. © 2008, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved.
2008
Connelly, L.B. (2008). Earning and Conversion Handicaps and the Welfare Economics of Disability. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISABILITY MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, 3(2), 61-67 [10.1375/jdmr.3.2.61].
Connelly, LUKE BRIAN
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