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significant increase in employment and earnings a year later. To explore welfare implications, we develop and estimate a …
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participation and employment of people with disabilities. However, prior research has yielded mixed results as to the impact of … illustrate through comparison with other recent work. Effects on employment are inconclusive. Our findings provide further …
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of employer-imposed vaccine mandates at 581 nursing homes on disease spread, employment outcomes, and several patient …
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against the disabled in hiring, firing, and pay. Although the ADA was meant to increase employment of the disabled, it also … employment of disabled men of all working ages and disabled women under age 40. The effects appear to be larger in medium size … little evidence of an impact on the nondisabled, suggesting that the adverse employment consequences of the ADA have been …
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In the last twenty years the labor force participation rates of 45 to 54-year-old men have fallen 10.6 percentage points among non-whites and 4.4 percentage points among whites. I find that nearly half of this puzzling decline can be explained by the growth of the Social Security Disability...
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Disability benefit recipients in the United States have nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing substantially faster than the population. It is difficult to estimate how much of this increase is explained by changes in population health, as we often lack a valid counterfactual. We...
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employment and other settings. Several empirical studies have suggested that employment levels of individuals with disabilities … declined rather than increased after the ADA's passage. This paper provides a first look at whether lower disabled employment … disabilities as a rational response to the ADA's employment protections. The main empirical finding is that individuals with …
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While time out of work normally decreases subsequent employment, Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) may improve … the health of disabled individuals and increase their ability to work. In this paper, I examine the employment of … one-fifth started earning at levels that would have disqualified them for DI, an employment response that is large …
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We provide a detailed analysis of the incidence, duration and determinants of claims made on private Long Term Disability (LTD) policies using a database of approximately 10,000 policies and 1 million workers from a major LTD insurer. We document that LTD claims rates are much lower than claims...
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We study a fundamental reform of the public Disability Insurance (DI) system in Germany. Effective 2001, cohorts born after 1960 are no longer eligible for "occupational DI." Occupational DI (ODI) implies benefit eligibility when health shocks prevent employees from working in their previous...
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