some of the inequality in real wages could be attributed to differences in quality of labor, industry composition, labor …

of SBTC is very small, accounting for about 1/20th of the observed increase. By contrast, a gradual and very modest shift … in the distribution of human capital across workers can easily account for the large observed increase in wage inequality. …

voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …. We find no evidence suggesting that the law reduced employment probabilities. …

changes in behavior and/or opportunities as the key to understanding the recent decline. We show that employment declines were …We began by asking whether the decline in employment among those with disabilities was broad-based or narrowly focused …, explained by population shifts or changes in behavior and/or opportunities among those with disabilities, or simply reflective …

A new and highly controversial literature argues that the employment of working-age people with disabilities fell … with disabilities nor its employment trends. In this paper, we examine the merits of these criticisms. We first consider … measurement difficulties potentially bias empirical estimates of the prevalence of disability and of the employment behavior of …