It is widely accepted that people with disabilities incur additional expenditures on transport, heating, equipment and other items. In this article, we estimate the magnitude of these extra costs of living for adults with disabilities aged 50–65 across 15 countries of Europe using the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) data. Drawing on the standard of living approach of Zaidi and Burchardt, we compare the incomes required by households with and without adults with disabilities to obtain an equivalent standard of living. We advance upon this research by drawing on the cross-nationally harmonized data of adults aged 50+ from the SHARE. The results suggest that there are substantial extra costs of disability in these countries: around 44 percent of income for a household with an adult reporting a work-related disability and somewhat less than 30 percent of income for a household with an adult who receives disability benefits. Applying an equivalization scale based on these figures increases the overall poverty incidence rate, especially for households with disabled adult members. These findings thus have implications for analysing the entitlement and benefit levels for disability support programmes and for devising accurate poverty estimates concerning persons with disabilities.

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估算欧洲国家的残疾额外成本：对贫困衡量和与残疾相关的商品化的影响

残疾人在运输，供暖，设备和其他物品上的额外支出已被广泛接受。在本文中，我们使用欧洲健康，老龄化和退休调查（SHARE）数据估算了欧洲15个国家/地区中年龄在50-65岁之间的残疾成年人的额外生活费用。利用Zaidi和Burchardt的生活水平方法，我们比较了有和没有残疾成人的家庭所需的收入，以获得同等的生活水平。我们通过利用SHARE的50岁以上成年人的跨国协调数据来推进这项研究。结果表明，这些国家/地区的残疾人士付出了大量额外费用：对于成年人中有与工作有关的残疾的家庭，其收入约占其收入的44％，对于成年人中有残疾的家庭，其收入约占其收入的30％。根据这些数字应用均等化量表会增加总体贫困发生率，尤其是对于有成年残疾人的家庭。因此，这些发现对于分析残疾人支持计划的权利和福利水平以及为残疾人制定准确的贫困估计具有影响。