This project includes seven research studies to support University of New Hampshire’s Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment Policy and Measurement. These This project includes studies to expand knowledge of the effects of program incentives on employment outcomes of...

The data that could inform policymaking are a morass of program-specific data sets and largely uncoordinated surveys.

Uses a new variable in the Ticket Research File to examine this issue.

Using Social Security Administration data, this paper presents findings from a longitudinal analysis of the extent to which new Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability beneficiaries return to work and use SSI work incentives. Longitudinal statistics show that more than 8 percent of those...

This study describes the extent to which vocational rehabilitation (VR) applicants receive Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits before or after VR application. SSD entry varies with VR applicant characteristics; those with relatively high SSD entry include non-Hispanic whites, those not...

This article presents long-term cumulative statistics on the extent to which individuals who began receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability payments from 1996 through 2006 found work and used SSI work incentives. Among the 2001 award cohort, for which the richest data are...

Using a nonexperimental analysis, this article examined earnings and income for older workers who later experience the onset of a medical condition that limits their ability to work. Income from unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, and retirement and disability benefits offset only a...

Using linked Social Security (SS) administrative data, we analyzed SS Disability Insurance (DI) program reform proposals that would hold firms partially responsible for a portion of the DI benefits paid to their recent employees. Our analysis creates baseline firm-level benefit liability...

Educational policymakers have long been concerned that baby booms and busts alternately cause shortages and surpluses in academic labor markets. These concerns have been supported by models which purport to forecast the effects of change in cohort size on the academic labor market. In this paper...

A multiple skill model (MSM) of labor inputs in production functions is presented in this paper. Previous researchers have aggregated workers into a small number of categories along various demographic dimensions in a fashion that is arbitrary and inconsistent across studies. The MSM, of which...