A User's Guide to Current Statistics on the Employment of People with Disabilities

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Houtenville, Andrew J.; Wittenburg, David

doi:10.17848/9780585473666.ch2

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“…While many disabling conditions have at source a serious health problem resulting from an illness or 1 Recent discussions of the definition of disability can be found in Wunderlich et al (2002), Social Security Advisory Board (2003) and Burkhauser et al (2003).…”

Section: Disability and The Capacity For Workmentioning

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Disability, capacity for work and the business cycle: an international perspective

2010

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"Important policy issues arise from the high and growing number of people claiming disability benefits for reasons of incapacity for work in OECD countries. Economic conditions play an important part in explaining both the stock of disability benefit claimants and inflows to and outflows from that stock. Employing a variety of cross-country and country-specific household panel data sets, as well as administrative data, we find strong evidence that local variations in unemployment have an important explanatory role for disability benefit receipt, with higher total enrolments, lower outflows from rolls and, often, higher inflows into disability rolls in regions and periods of above-average unemployment. In understanding the nature of the cyclical fluctuations and trends in disability it is important to distinguish between work disability and health disability. The former is likely to be influenced by economic conditions and welfare programmes while the latter evolves in a slower fashion with medical technology and demographic changes. There is little evidence of health disability being related to the business cycle, so cyclical variations are driven by work disability. The rise in unemployment due to the current global economic crisis is expected to increase the number of disability insurance claimants." Copyright (c) CEPR, CES, MSH, 2010.

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Section: Disability and The Capacity For Workmentioning

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Disability, capacity for work and the business cycle: an international perspective

2010

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“…This makes it problematic to draw conclusions about the characteristics of "people with disabilities" in a specific year based on the CPS. Research has shown however, that CPS-based trends in prevalence of work limitations and employment rates for people with work limitations are similar to those found in other surveys using alternative measures of disability, such as the National Health Interview Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (Burkhauser et al, 2002;Burkhauser, Houtenville and Wittenburg, 2003;Kaye, 2003). Another characteristic of the trends in Figure 2 is that there is a convergence between the prevalence of work limitations for young males and females over this two-decade period.…”

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confidence: 55%

“…Interview Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation using broader definitions of disability that are less susceptible to the effects of changes in the economic and policy environment (Burkhauser et al, 2002;Burkhauser, Houtenville and Wittenburg, 2003;Kaye, 2003). Hence, we have to conclude that the substantial decline in private coverage and increase in public coverage that our analysis attributes to the observed decline in the employment of young adult males with work limitations is not simply an artifact of the CPS definition of disability.…”

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Health Insurance Coverage Among Youth and Young Adults with Work Limitations

2007

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“…First, there has been a rapid growth in the number of persons who collect disability benefits from public programs and a decline in employment of persons with disabilities [e.g., Bound and Waidmann (2002) and Burkhauser Houtenville and Wittenburg (2003) in the U.S. and Campolieti and Lavis (2000) in Canada]. Second, engaging persons with disabilities in active employment is now regarded as important not only to reduce the numbers on income support but also to foster their integration into society.…”

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Volunteering, Income Support Programs and Persons with Disabilities

Campolieti¹,

Gómez

Gunderson

2009

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We study the propensity of persons with disabilities to engage in volunteer activity using the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS). our principal focus is on the effects of various income support programs on persons with disabilities participation in volunteer activities because income support programs can differ with respect to their treatment of unpaid work. For example, workers' compensation programs embody strong disincentives to volunteering while public disability insurance programs explicitly encourage unpaid work. We find that workers' compensation is associated with decreases in the probability of volunteering while public disability insurance is associated with increases in the propensity to volunteer. The relevance of these results to both theories of volunteerism and public policy is discussed.

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A User's Guide to Current Statistics on the Employment of People with Disabilities

Cited by 52 publications

References 9 publications

Disability, capacity for work and the business cycle: an international perspective

Disability, capacity for work and the business cycle: an international perspective

Health Insurance Coverage Among Youth and Young Adults with Work Limitations

Volunteering, Income Support Programs and Persons with Disabilities

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