Disabled Persons and the Law

Sales, Bruce D.; Powell, Darren; Duizend, Richard Van

doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-0794-6

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“…According to Sales, Powell and Duizend (1982), most states established their own legislation against discrimination based on disability in the 1970s in various sectors, including education and housing. As no federal guidelines for these regulations existed at the time, Sales et al (1982) note that there were variations across states in the strength of the laws’ protection. In this section, we explain how we define the degree of employment protection for each state prior to the enactment of the ADA in July 1990.…”

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Measuring the effects of employment protection policies: Theory and evidence from the Americans with Disabilities Act

Kim

Rhee

2018

Labour Economics

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Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is an employment protection policy for disabled workers. By exploiting cross-state variation in pre-ADA legislation, we measure the effects of the law on transition rates of disabled workers. We find a decline in employment-to-non-employment transitions after the ADA, with an insignificant change in flow into employment. We use a model to disentangle the costs of firing and hiring imposed by the ADA. Our findings suggest that the ADA induces firms to fire less frequently but become more selective with new hires, impacting the aggregate productivity of the workforce and output of the economy.

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Measuring the effects of employment protection policies: Theory and evidence from the Americans with Disabilities Act

Kim

Rhee

2018

Labour Economics

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“…For example, legislation on revision of commitment laws in the early 1970s was initiated not by psychologists but by lawyers and patients (e.g., O'Connor v. Donaldson, 1975;Wexler, 1981). Programs to provide physical and mental health services (Sales, Powell, Van Duizend, and Associates, 1982), as well as food and housing for street people have frequently become the province of politicians, often without input from psychologists. These and many other topics affect underprivileged or underrepresented portions of the population whose rights to fair treat-ment and services are supported by the values of community psychology.…”

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Community psychologists in state legislative decision making

Wursten

Sales

1988

American J of Comm Psychol

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The inherently political nature of community psychology makes it critical for the community psychologist to be able to understand and sometimes influence the political process. With this goal comes the responsibifity of carefully considering the limits of our scientific knowledge base. This paper considers those limits, reviews the literature on strategies for influencing legislative decision making, and addresses the implications of those #mits for ongoing involvement in policy influence.Community psychology is inherently political. Its values reflect the right of individuals and groups to be different and assert that all people are worthwhile and deserve equal access to material and psychological resources (Rappaport, 1977). Consistent with these values, George Miller (1969) stated, "Nothing would be more relevant to human welfare.., than to discover how best to give psychology away." Miller contended that there is a body of knowledge about human behavior which could potentially contribute to human welfare and that the task of the psychologist is to make that knowledge generally available. The community psychologist frequently takes his or her activities a step farther, not only by sharing information but also by attempting to provide services to underprivileged groups, by designing and implementing new programs, or by evaluating and revising existing ones. Developing programs to serve the homeless, supporting the right of mentally ill individuals to be maintained in the community and facilitating their access to treatment, medication, housing, and a safe environment, or, for those who are con-IAI1 correspondence should be sent to April Wursten,

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“…Although there are nearly 30 federal statutes and numerous state and local laws prohibiting discrimination against handicapped persons (Sales, Powell, & Van Duizend, 1982), there are two fundamental landmark federal initiatives: (1) the Rehabilitation, Comprehensive Services, and Developmen-tal Disability legislation (the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended), and (2) the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. Both of these farreaching initiatives start with the basic premise that the 35 million Americans who have physical, sensory, developmental, and mental/emotional disabilities have an absolute right, as well as the responsibility, to participate fully and equally in our society.…”

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confidence: 99%