State vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies play a significant role in supporting the employment goals of people with disabilities, but delays in the receipt of vocational services could adversely affect employment outcomes of applicants for services. This study explores the effect of waiting...

We use a dynamic modeling strategy to evaluate two potential avenues through which health differences generate a wage gap: (1) directly, through reductions in health capital, and (2) indirectly, through employment transitions that reduce human capital (specifically, occupation and employer...

The Great Recession (December 2007 to June 2009) had far-reaching impacts on the U.S. economy, but it likely had a different effect on beneficiaries of the Social Security Administration (SSA) disability programs than on other working-age individuals. This data brief describes the experiences of...

This study explores the types of services, supports, and accommodations workers with disabilities use on and off the job and the strategies workers use to obtain the supports they need to find and maintain their employment. It also examines the extent to which employment supports and services...

This report, prepared for CMS, is the last in a series of annual reports on participation in the Medicaid Buy-In program. It provides updates on both national- and state-level trends in enrollment, employment, and earnings among the 35 reporting Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) states with a...

This paper describes the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) as a data source for migration studies. SIPP provides information on income, employment outcomes, and participation in government programs. The paper illustrates differences in the propensity for interstate migration...

In 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA) to improve the labor market opportunities of people with disabilities. Immediately following the enactment of the ADA, the employment rate of people with disabilities declined. However, the long-term employment consequences of the...

People with disabilities are disproportionately represented among the poorest of the poor in developing countries. An increasingly common method of combating poverty in developing countries, microlending, has been largely unavailable to those with disabilities. This paper reports on one of the...

This report, prepared for CMS, is the last in a series of annual reports on participation in the Medicaid Buy-In program. It provides updates on both national- and state-level trends in enrollment, employment, and earnings among the 35 reporting Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG) states with a...

The Social Security Administration is funding a random assignment evaluation of six demonstration projects to improve employment and other outcomes for youth ages 14 to 25 who are either receiving disability benefits or are at high risk of receiving them in the future. This report reviews the...