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Work and the Disability Transition in 20th Century America

Wilson, Sven - 2005

Using data from Union Army pensioners and from the National Health Interview Surveys, we estimate that work-disability among white males aged 45-64 was 3.5 times as high in the late 19th century than at the end of the 20th century, including a decline and flattening of the age-profile since...

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Disaggregating Employment Protection : The Case of Disability Discrimination

Jolls, Christine - 2004

Studies of the effects of employment protection frequently examine protective legislation as a whole. From a policy reform perspective, however, it is often critical to know which particular aspect of the legislation is responsible for its observed effects. The American with Disabilities Act...

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Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation : Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects

Jolls, Christine - 2004

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) broadly prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in 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....

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Disability Benefit Generosity and Labor Force Withdrawal

Mullen, Kathleen - 2016

A key component for estimating the optimal size and structure of disability insurance (DI) programs is the elasticity of DI claiming with respect to benefit generosity. Yet, in many countries, including the United States, all workers face identical benefit schedules, which are a function of...

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Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Benefit Formula

Goda, Gopi Shah - 2015

We examine the connection between taxes paid and benefits accrued under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI … disability benefits received from an additional dollar of earnings, net of the SSDI payroll tax, generally declines with age …

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The Disability Employment Puzzle : A Field Experiment on Employer Hiring Behavior

Ameri, Mason - 2015

People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a contributing factor. Following the method of Bertrand and Mullainathan (2003), new evidence is presented from a field experiment that sent applications in response to 6,016...

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Does Delay Cause Decay? The Effect of Administrative Decision Time on the Labor Force Participation and Earnings of Disability Applicants

Autor, David H. - 2015

Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants and distinguishes it from the discouragement effect of receiving disability benefits … processing times reduce the employment and earnings of SSDI applicants for multiple years following application, with the effects … estimated. Combining the delay and benefits receipt channels reveals that the SSDI application process reduces subsequent …

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Health, Disability Insurance and Retirement in Denmark

Bingley, Paul - 2014

There are large differences in labor force participation rates by health status. We examine to what extent these differences are determined by the provisions of Disability Insurance and other pension programs. Using administrative data for Denmark we find that those in worse health and with less...

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The Employment Effect of Terminating Disability Benefits

Moore, Timothy J. - 2014

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 individuals who lost DI eligibility after the 1996 removal of...

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Moral Hazard and Claims Deterrence in Private Disability Insurance

Autor, David - 2012

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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