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> "For example, good amount of growth of employment rate in recent years is a result of many people, who previously drew disability benefits to compensate them for their inability to work, actually going to work, once the work became better option than government check."

I've heard this before but have not seen good data on it, do you have cites?

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I saw a good graph a while ago that matched growth in new workers with disability terminations, but this is pretty apparent when you look at the disability statistics themselves:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/dibStat.html

Number of people drawing disability benefits was rapidly growing at around 5% YoY up till 2011, then its growth slowed significantly, and around 2014 it started to slowly fall.

Here's one chart I found showing the relationship between disability and unemployment statistics: http://www.mybudget360.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/trimta...

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