explained by the growth of the Social Security Disability program. By 1975, 6.22% of the prime-age non-white men and 3.57% of … the white men were Social Security Disability beneficiaries. Despite the medical screening of applicants, I find in cross … Security Disability beneficiaries …

Disability benefit recipients in the United States have nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing substantially … cannot currently claim benefits. Using NHIS microdata, we estimate models of disability as a function of medical conditions … for both the legal and undocumented populations. The relationship between health and disability is far stronger for those …

disorders on employment and conditional work hours and income. Two-stage instrumental variables methods were used to correct for … reduced employment among both men and women. Evidence was also found of small reductions in the conditional work hours of men …

-country differences in hours worked. We emphasize two main forces: sectoral reallocation from self-employment to wage work, and declining … fixed costs of wage work. We show that these forces are crucial for understanding how the extensive margin (the employment … estimate a quantitative model of labor supply featuring a traditional self-employment sector and a modern wage-employment …

. We set up the labor supply decision asa discrete choice problem, where each worker faces a finite number of employment …