Author: Richard V. BurkhauserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Economic Outcomes of Working-age People with Disabilities Over the Business Cycle
Author: Richard V. BurkhauserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
The Dynamics of Disability
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309084199
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claimants as baby boomers age, changing attitudes culminating in the Americans With Disabilities Act. Disability is now understood as a dynamic process, and Social Security must comprehend that process to plan adequately for the times ahead. The Dynamics of Disability provides expert analysis and recommendations in key areas: Understanding the current social, economic, and physical environmental factors in determining eligibility for disability benefits. Developing and implementing a monitoring system to measure and track trends in work disability. Improving the process for making decisions on disability claims. Building Social Security's capacity for conducting needed research. This book provides a wealth of detail on the workings of the Social Security disability program, recent and emerging disability trends, issues and previous experience in researching disability, and more. It will be of primary interest to federal policy makers, the Congress, and researchersâ€"and it will be useful to state disability officials, medical and rehabilitation professionals, and the disability community.
Health at Older Ages
Author: David M. CutlerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226132323
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Americans are living longer—and staying healthier longer—than ever before. Despite the rapid disappearance of pensions and health care benefits for retirees, older people are healthier and better off than they were twenty years ago. In Health at Older Ages, a distinguished team of economists analyzes the foundations of disability decline, quantifies this phenomenon in economic terms, and proposes what might be done to accelerate future improvements in the health of our most elderly populations. This breakthrough volume argues that educational attainment, high socioeconomic status, an older retirement age, and accessible medical care have improved the health and quality of life of seniors. Along the way, it outlines the economic benefits of disability decline, such as an increased rate of seniors in the workplace, relief for the healthcare system and care-giving families, and reduced medical expenses for the elderly themselves. Health at Older Ages will be an essential contribution to the debate about meeting the medical needs of an aging nation.
Labor Markets and Business Cycles
Author: Robert ShimerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400835232
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Labor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes. Robert Shimer shows analytically and quantitatively that rigid wages are important for explaining the volatile behavior of the unemployment rate in business cycles. The book focuses on the labor wedge that arises when the marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure does not equal the marginal product of labor. According to competitive models of the labor market, the labor wedge should be constant and equal to the labor income tax rate. But in U.S. data, the wedge is strongly countercyclical, making it seem as if recessions are periods when workers are dissuaded from working and firms are dissuaded from hiring because of an increase in the labor income tax rate. When job searches are time consuming and wages are flexible, search frictions--the cost of a job search--act like labor adjustment costs, further exacerbating inconsistencies between the competitive model and data. The book shows that wage rigidities can reconcile the search model with the data, providing a quantitatively more accurate depiction of labor markets, consumption, and investment dynamics. Developing detailed search and matching models, Labor Markets and Business Cycles will be the main reference for those interested in the intersection of labor market dynamics and business cycle research.
Social Security Bulletin
Author: Counting Working-age People with Disabilities
Author: Andrew J. HoutenvillePublisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880993464
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The overarching objective of this book is to support and facilitate efforts to improve statistics and data on working-age people with disabilities.
Factors in Studying Employment for Persons with Disability
Author: Barbara AltmanPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787146065
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This collection examines less frequently anaylzed aspects of employment for persons with disabilities, offering a variety of approaches to the conceptualization of work, and how it differs across cultures, organizations, and types of disability.
Precarious Employment
Author: VoskoPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773585192
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This interdisciplinary volume offers a multifaceted picture of precarious employment and the ways in which its principal features are reinforced or challenged by laws, policies, and labour market institutions, including trade unions and community organizations. Contributors develop more fully the concept of precarious employment and critique outmoded notions of standard and nonstandard employment. The product of a five-year Community-University Research Alliance, the volume aims to foster new social, statistical, legal, political, and economic understandings of precarious employment and to advance strategies for improving the quality and conditions of work and health. Contributors include John Anderson (Canadian Council on Social Development), Pat Armstrong (York University), James Beaton (York University), Stéphanie Bernstein (University of Québec at Montréal), Jan Borowy (Ontario Public Sector Employees' Union), Cynthia Cranford (University of Toronto), Tania Das Gupta (York University), Alice de Wolff (Independent Researcher, Toronto), Andrew Jackson (Canadian Labour Congress), Andrew King (United Steel Workers of America), Kate Laxer (York University), Wayne Lewchuk (McMaster University), Katherine Lippel (University of Québec at Montréal), Chris Schenk (Ontario Federation of Labour), Michael Polanyi (Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives), Emile Tompa (McMaster University and University of Toronto), Heather Scott (University of Toronto and Institute for Work and Health [IWH]), Scott Trevithick (University of Toronto and IWH), Sudipa Bhattacharyya (IWH), Eric Tucker (York University), and Nancy Zukewich (Statistics Canada).
Economic Review
Author: The Labor Market Experience of Workers with Disabilities
Author: Julie L. HotchkissPublisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880992522
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Examines the impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on wages and benefits, hours of work, separation, unemployment and job search, and State vs. federal legislation.