Race and Education Differences in Disability Status and Labor Force Attachment / John Bound, Michael Schoenbaum, Timothy Waidmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bound, John.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Schoenbaum, Michael.

Waidmann, Timothy.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5159.

NBER working paper series no. w5159

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.

Summary:

The labor force participation rates of older, working-aged black men and men with lower levels of education have historically been significantly lower than those of white men and men with more education, respectively. This paper uses data from the alpha release of the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the extent to which variation in health and job characteristics can account for these differences. Our analysis suggests that race and education differences in health status of middle-aged men can explain a substantial fraction of black/white differences in labor force attachment and essentially all of the gap between men with different levels of education.

Notes:

Print version record

June 1995.