Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working-Aged Disabled / John Bound, Timothy Waidmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bound, John.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Waidmann, Timothy.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7975.

NBER working paper series no. w7975

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2000.

Summary:

During the 1990s, while overall employment rates for working-aged men and women either remained roughly constant (men) or rose (women), employment rates for the disabled fell. During the same period the fraction of the working-aged population receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) benefits increased quite dramatically. We present simple time series and cross-state evidence suggesting that the growth in the DI program can account for much of the decline in the relative employment position of the disabled.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2000.