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The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to accommodate disabled workers and outlaws discrimination … 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 …
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This paper estimates the effects on steady state retirement by men of changes in pension" plans and social security in the 1970's and 1980's. Work incentives associated with pension" coverage and plan characteristics are calculated primarily from the 1969-79 Retirement History" Study and the...
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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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employment and other settings. Several empirical studies have suggested that employment levels of individuals with disabilities … disabilities as a rational response to the ADA's employment protections. The main empirical finding is that individuals with …The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) broadly prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in …
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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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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 …, self-care and independent living disabilities, consistent with a "job unlock" mechanism. Exploiting the longitudinal nature …
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The health care industry is being transformed. Large firms are merging and acquiring other firms. Alliances and contractual relations between players in this market are shifting rapidly. Within the next few years, many markets are predicted to be dominated by a few large firms. Antitrust...
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This paper reviews the literature devoted to studying markets for health care services and health insurance. There has been tremendous growth and progress in this field. A tremendous amount of new research has been done in this area over the last 10 years. In addition, there has been increasing...
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