Retirement on a disability pension is more common in the public than the private sector.

Our study examined the differences in retirement on a disability pension in the public sector compared to the private sector. The results show that the differences are particularly high when it comes to retirement on a partial disability pension and varied by occupational group. The study is based on register data compiled by the Finnish Centre for Pensions and Statistics Finland. The study was published in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.