Author: Dawn M. SweetPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Assessing the Impact of the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Dawn M. SweetAssessing Employers' Understanding of the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Nancy Virtue LewisEmployment, Disability, and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Peter David BlanckPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116894
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Americans with Disabilities Act was heralded by its congressional sponsors as an emancipation proclamation for people with disabilities and as the most important civil rights legislation passed in a generation. This book offers an assessment of what has actually occurred since the ADA's enactment in 1990. In empirically based articles, contributors from the fields of law, health policy, government, and business reveal the unsoundness of charges from the right that the ADA will bankrupt industry, and assumptions on the left that the ADA will prove ineffective in helping people with disabilities enter and remain in the workforce.
Sharing the Dream
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Discrimination against people with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This report is based on the public hearing on the Americans with Disabilities Act which the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held on November 12-13, 1998 to "investigate how the ADA was accomplishing its objectives of ensuring equality, independence, and freedom for people with disabilities"--P iii
Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Publisher:
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Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Americans with Disabilities Act
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Category : Discrimination in employment
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Overview of the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Reasonable Accommodation Process
Author: Susanne M. BruyèrePublisher:
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Category : Discrimination against people with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Assessing Post-ADA Employment
Author: John J. DonohuePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This article explores the relationship between the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the relative labor market outcomes for people with disabilities. Using individual-level longitudinal data from 1981 to 1996 derived from the previously unexploited Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we examine the possible effect of the ADA on (1) annual weeks worked; (2) annual earnings; and (3) hourly wages for a sample of 7,120 unique male household heads between the ages of 21 and 65, as well as for a subset of 1,437 individuals appearing every year from 1981 to 1996. Our analysis of the larger sample suggests the ADA had a negative impact on the employment levels of disabled persons relative to nondisabled persons but no impact on relative earnings. However, our evaluation of the restricted sample raises questions about these findings. Using these data, we find little evidence of adverse effects on weeks worked but strong evidence of wage declines for the disabled, albeit declines beginning in 1986, well before the ADA's passage. These results therefore cast doubt on the adverse ADA-related impacts found in previous studies, particularly Acemoglu and Angrist (2001). The conflicting narratives that emerge from our analysis shed new light on, but also counsel caution in reaching final conclusions about, the impact of the ADA on employment outcomes for people with disabilities.
Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment, and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
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Category : Disabled
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Employment Discrimination Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Scott BurrisPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of disability. Since its passage in 1990, debate has raged about whether the statute is doing any good. A steady stream of narrowing court decisions has led some to declare the law a failure. This article reviews the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of Title I. Many studies find a decline in employment rates among the disabled in the wake of the ADA, but the evidence that these declines were caused by the ADA is weak. Title I protects people who require no more than a "reasonable accommodation" to do the job in question; the employment data include a much broader range of people, many if not most of whom could not meet Title I's qualification standard. Studies that "correct" for this difference find no or even a slightly positive impact on employment. Studies of employer attitudes and practices show a positive change, as do a few studies of the "empowerment" felt by people with disabilities. Many commentators attribute any weakness in the effect of the ADA to the narrow interpretation of key elements of the statute by the federal courts. While the statute has been narrowly interpreted, a more important factor may be the flaws in processing of complaints by the EEOC and state partner agencies. While the limitations of the statute's language are real, Title I has provided benefits to workers with disabilities and could provide more benefits if enforcement mechanisms were improved. We conclude that Congress should revisit the promises it made in the ADA. For people whose disabilities make it difficult to work, even with an accommodation, anti-discrimination law cannot have much of an effect on employment rates except as part of a comprehensive policy encompassing social security, health care, training programs and tax incentives. Only Congress can rewrite the statute to protect people who can work but whose disabilities have been excluded from the statute by the courts. And Congress, state legislatures and the bar must take steps to repair our broken enforcement system for employment discrimination disputes: more funds, greater use of mediation, and better legal services are essential to making the ADA a real remedy for employment discrimination.