[How much does unemployment mean for the increased use of disability pensions?]

In a probably representative material of 363 applicants for a national rehabilitation or disability pension it was found that 5.2% had lost their job before becoming sick-listed and an applicant for pension, while 3.3% had had serious worries about losing their job, but had not actually done so. The author suggests that unemployment is a relatively modest factor in the marked increase in the 1980s of persons receiving a disability pension, but probably will be much more important in the 1990s.