A Closer Look at the Employment Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act

A Closer Look at the Employment Impact of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Julie L. Hotchkiss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
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This paper replicates the recent findings that the employment rate among all disabled persons has declined since the ADA. A closer look at this decline, however, indicates that the source of this measured decline in employment is the result of a tremendous drop in the labor force participation rate among the disabled. While also of potential concern, further analysis indicates that this drop in the labor force participation rate was not the result of the disabled fleeing the labor market, but, rather, more likely the result of re-classification of non-disabled, non-participants, as disabled. The unconditional employment probability among the disabled (taking selection into the labor market into account) has actually not declined, and may have in fact improved slightly for certain disability classifications. The results are consistent across two different data sets and mirrored by a state-level analysis. While the relative employment position of the disabled has not deteriorated, the lack of significant impact of the ADA does raise the issue of the merit of its labor market provisions.

The Labor Market Experience of Workers with Disabilities

The Labor Market Experience of Workers with Disabilities
Author: Julie L. Hotchkiss
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0880992522

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.

Employment, Disability, and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Employment, Disability, and the Americans with Disabilities Act
Author: Peter David Blanck
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780810116894

The Americans with Disabilities Act was heralded by its congressional sponsors as an emancipation proclamation for people with disabilities and as the most important civil rights legislation passed in a generation. This book offers an assessment of what has actually occurred since the ADA's enactment in 1990. In empirically based articles, contributors from the fields of law, health policy, government, and business reveal the unsoundness of charges from the right that the ADA will bankrupt industry, and assumptions on the left that the ADA will prove ineffective in helping people with disabilities enter and remain in the workforce.

Employment and Work

Employment and Work
Author: Susanne M. Bruyère
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2012-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483306003

This volume in The SAGE Reference Series on Disability explores issues facing people with disabilities in employment and the work environment. It is one of eight volumes in the cross-disciplinary and issues-based series, which incorporates links from varied fields making up Disability Studies as volumes examine topics central to the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families. With a balance of history, theory, research, and application, specialists set out the findings and implications of research and practice for others whose current or future work involves the care and/or study of those with disabilities, as well as for the disabled themselves. The presentational style (concise and engaging) emphasizes accessibility. Taken individually, each volume sets out the fundamentals of the topic it addresses, accompanied by compiled data and statistics, recommended further readings, a guide to organizations and associations, and other annotated resources, thus providing the ideal introductory platform and gateway for further study. Taken together, the series represents both a survey of major disability issues and a guide to new directions and trends and contemporary resources in the field as a whole.

The Declining Work and Welfare of People with Disabilities

The Declining Work and Welfare of People with Disabilities
Author: Richard V. Burkhauser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0844772151

"In this provocative volume, Richard V. Burkhauser and Mary C. Daly argue that the U.S. disability system is failing--growing at an unsustainable pace for taxpayers and delivering relatively poor outcomes to those with disabilities. These outcomes are not the inevitable results of demographic or health changes but rather the unintended consequences of changes to two public programs designed to assist those with disabilities: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Drawing on lessons from two recent policy initiatives--the reform of U.S. welfare policy and the reform of Dutch disability policy--and analyzing how public insurance and welfare program incentives affect behavior, Burkhauser and Daly argue for fundamental changes in the way disability is insured and managed. In keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act's philosophy of encouraging people with disabilities to remain in the workforce, the authors recommend changes in SSDI and SSI that make work, rather than benefits, the primary goal of federal disability policy."--From publisher description.