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The decline in employment of people with disabilities : a policy puzzle / David C. Stapleton, Richard V. Burkhauser, editors.
Lippincott Library HD7256.U5 D413 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Employment--United States.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Employment.
- United States.
- People with disabilities--Employment--United States--Statistics.
- People with disabilities--Employment--Government policy--United States.
- People with disabilities--Employment--Government policy.
- Genre:
- Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2003.
- Contents:
- The Employment and Economic Well-Being of Working-Aged People with Disabilities 2
- Is the Decline in Employment a Measurement Aberration? 5
- Comparing Trends in the Employment of People with Disabilities Across Data Sets and Disability Population Definitions 8
- Is the Overall Employment Rate of People with Disabilities the Appropriate Policy Success Measure? 9
- Alternative Explanations of the Overall Decline in Employment Rates 10
- Who Is Right? 20
- 2 A User's Guide to Current Statistics on the Employment of People with Disabilities / Richard V. Burkhauser, Andrew J. Houtenville, David C. Wittenburg 23
- Data Description 26
- Conceptualizing Disability 28
- Empirical Analysis 34
- Explaining the Differences in Employment Trends in Other Studies 41
- Other Labor Market Success Measures 47
- 3 Employment Declines among People with Disabilities / Andrew J. Houtenville, Mary C. Daly 87
- Data and Measurement 88
- Shifts in Population Composition 90
- Isolated Occurrence or Widespread Decline? 95
- Decomposition of Employment Decline 101
- Within-Group Changes in Health 108
- 4 Have Changes in the Nature of Work or the Labor Market Reduced Employment Prospects of Workers with Disabilities? / David C. Stapleton, Nanette Goodman, Andrew J. Houtenville 125
- The Static Aspects of Work 128
- The Dynamic Aspects of Work 156
- 5 Rising Health Care Expenditures and the Employment of People with High-Cost Chronic Conditions / Steven C. Hill, Gina A. Livermore, Andrew J. Houtenville 181
- 6 Employment and the Changing Disability Population / H. Stephen Kaye 217
- Employment Measures for the Disability Population 219
- The Changing Size and Composition of the Disability Population 224
- Increased Prevalence of Chronic Conditions and Impairments 234
- What Risk Factors Might Have Led to These Increases? 242
- 7 The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Employment of People with Disabilities / Thomas DeLeire 259
- The A Priori Case Against the ADA 263
- Empirical Studies
- the Weight of the Evidence Against the ADA 265
- What Needs To Be Done? 273
- 8 Does the Definition Affect the Outcome? / Douglas Kruse, Lisa Schur 279
- Problems in Defining and Measuring Disability 282
- Estimates of Employment Patterns and Trends 291
- 9 Is It Time to Declare the ADA a Failed Law? / Peter Blanck, Susan Schwochau, Chen Song 301
- Economic Models of Employment Discrimination 303
- Effect of ADA Title I 307
- Does the ADA Exacerbate the Employment Problem? 314
- 10 Social Security Disability Insurance and the Recent Decline in the Employment Rate of People with Disabilities / Nanette Goodman, Timothy Waidmann 339
- Findings 348
- 11 A Review of the Evidence and Its Implications for Policy Change / Richard V. Burkhauser, David C. Stapleton 369
- Did the Employment Rate Decline? 372
- Which Measure of the Employment Rate Should We Focus On? 375
- What Caused the Employment Rate Decline? 377
- Policy Implications 393.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 088099259X
- 0880992603
- OCLC:
- 52706477
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