This work has been performed under the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS). The report was prepared by Sílvia Garcia-Mandicó, Christopher Prinz and Stefan Thewissen, with contributions from Benjamin Levy. Dana Blumin, Daniel Camacho and Erika Chaparro Pérez provided the statistical analysis, and Lucy Hulett prepared the report for publication.
The OECD team would like to thank several experts from the governments of Austria, Belgium, Canada, Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland for their continuous support of the project, the provision of relevant policy information and administrative data, and their comments to an earlier version of the report. Thanks go in particular to the National Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection of Austria, the National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance of Belgium, Employment and Social Development Canada, the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Netherlands, the Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion of Norway and the Federal Social Insurance Office of Switzerland. Valuable comments have also been received from other member countries following the discussion of a draft of Chapters 1 and 2 of the report at the meeting of the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee in spring 2022. Benjamin Geiger, Mark Keese, Mark Pearson, Stefano Scarpetta and Stefan Trömel also provided valuable feedback.
The painting on the front cover comes from Ateliers Personimages, a French non-profit association promoting artistic creation for persons with disabilities (www.personimages.org).