Author: Richard V. Burkhauser
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Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Richard V. Burkhauser
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Languages : en
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A new and highly controversial literature argues that the employment of working-age people with disabilities fell dramatically relative to the rest of the working-age population in the 1990s. Some dismiss these results as fundamentally flawed because they come from a self-reported work limitation-based disability population that captures neither the actual population with disabilities nor its employment trends. In this paper, we examine the merits of these criticisms. We first consider some of the difficulties of defining and consistently measuring the population with disabilities. We then discuss how these measurement difficulties potentially bias empirical estimates of the prevalence of disability and of the employment behavior of those with disabilities. Having provided a context for our analysis, we use data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to compare the prevalence and employment rates across two empirical populations of those with disabilities: one defined by self-reported impairments and one defined by self-reported work limitations. We find that although traditional work limitation-based definitions underestimate the size of the broader population with health impairments, the employment trends in the populations defined by work limitations and impairments are not significantly different from one another over the 1980s and 1990s. We then show that the trends in employment observed for the NHIS population defined by self-reported work limitations are statistically similar to those found in the Current Population Survey (CPS). Based on this analysis, we argue that nationally representative employment-based data sets like the CPS can be used to monitor the employment trends of those with disabilities over the past two decades.

Author: Richard V. Burkhauser
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Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: Leonard G. Perlman
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Category : Employment (Economic theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: Richard V. Burkhauser
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Languages : en
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Using a single period measure to capture the population with disabilities in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics we observe the same dramatic decline in the relative employment rate of working age people with disabilities in the 1990s that is found in the Current Population Survey. We find that the trends in these two data sets are not significantly different over the 1980s and 1990s. This is also the case when we use longitudinal aspects of the PSID to develop long duration disability populations. Using similar methods we compare the levels and trends in the relative employment of working age men with disabilities in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find that while the relative employment rates of men with disabilities fall dramatically in both countries, the timing of these falls is not the same. Relative employment rates for German men with disabilities fell in the late 1980s but were constant over the 1990s while the opposite occurred in the United States. We argue that these differences in timing are more likely to be caused by differences in the timing of changes in the social environment these men faced than in differences in the timing of changes in the severity of their work limitations in the two countries.

Author: Richard V. Burkhauser
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Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco presents the full text of the March 2001 working paper entitled "Economic Outcomes of Working-age People with Disabilities over the Business Cycles: An Examination of the 1980s and 1990s," written by Richard V. Burkhauser, Mary C. Daly, Andrew J. Houtenville, and Nigar Nargis. The text is available in PDF format. This paper finds that the employment of working-age men and women with and without disabilities showed a procyclical trend in the 1980s business cycle, but not in the 1990s expansion.

Author: Linda H. Levine
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Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Author: David C. Stapleton
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Languages : en
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The transition of single women with children off the welfare rolls and into employment (see Figures 1 and 2) in the 1990s has been described as "stunning" by leading policy researchers (see, for instance, Blank 2002). The authors in The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities: A Policy Puzzle (Stapleton and Burkhauser 2003) document and analyze an equally stunning transition of working-age people with disabilities out of the workforce and onto disability income support programs (see Figures 1 and 2), despite the upsurge in government rhetoric proclaiming increased employment and economic independence as a primary policy goal. Employment and program participation trends for both populations departed sharply from trends in the prior decade.

Author: David C. Stapleton
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
ISBN: 0880992603
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Topics covered include changes in the nature of work, rising health care expenditures, changing disability population, the American with Disabilities Act, social security disability insurance.