Mobility and Social Efficiency

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how mobility impairments affect individual utility maximization and compares disability policies in North America, revealing inefficiencies in current support systems through a general competitive model.

Contribution

It introduces a general model of utility maximization for individuals with mobility impairments and evaluates North American disability policies against this framework.

Findings

Identifies sources of inefficiency in disability support systems

Provides a theoretical framework for analyzing mobility-related utility maximization

Highlights policy gaps in North American disability support

Abstract

This is a general competitive analysis paper. A model is presented that describes how an individual with a physical disability, or mobility impairment, would go about utility maximization. These results are then generalized. Subsequently, a selection of disability policies from Canada and the United States are compared to the insights of the model, and it is shown that there are sources of inefficiency in many North American disability support systems.