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TheDecline in Employment
of People with Disabilities

A Policy Puzzle

David C. Stapleton and Richard V. Burkhauser, Editors
Cornell University

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"This carefully edited and enjoyably contentious volume presents, and occasionally debunks, the major arguments advanced to explain the declining employment of the working-age disabled in the 1990s."

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Researchers agree that the employment rate for working-aged people with disabilities declined during the 1990s. What they don't agree on is the main cause for this decline. Some cite the increasing severity of disabilities while others argue that the easing of eligibility standards and increases in the relative benefits of Social Security disability programs (SSI and SSDI) are to blame. Still others argue that the passage and implementation of the ADA offers a rationale for the decline. This book swings open the doors on this debate. It presents the latest research on the employment woes of the working-aged population with disabilities in a way that is accessible not only to researchers, but to policymakers, advocacy groups, and grass-roots disability communities.

The book begins with a documentation of the employment rate decline and ends by spelling out the implications of this decline for public policy. However, the bulk of the book provides a detailed examination of the various explanations for the puzzling decline in employment among the working-aged population with disabilities. As the editors state in their introductory chapter,

"Given the robust economic expansion of the 1990s and the promise of greater independence that is embodied in the ADA, this decline in both employment and its importance for household income might reasonably be considered a disaster for the working-aged population with disabilities. Hence, it is not surprising that this decline in measured employment has generated a major debate, represented in this book, over the quality of the numbers produced by current data sets and, if credible, the causes for this unprecedented decline."
Included are:
  • Introduction, Richard V. Burkhauser and David C. Stapleton
  • A User's Guide to Current Statistics on the Employment of People with Disabilities, Richard V. Burkhauser, Andrew J. Houtenville, and David C. Wittenburg
  • Employment Declines among People with Disabilities: Population Movements, Isolated Experience, or Broad Policy Concern?, Andrew J. Houtenville and Mary C. Daly
  • Have Changes in the Nature of Work or the Labor Market Reduced Employment Prospects of Workers with Disabilities?, David C. Stapleton, Nanette Goodman, and Andrew J. Houtenville
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    448 pp. 2003
    $45 cloth ISBN 0 88099 260-3 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-260-2
    $22 paper ISBN 0 88099 259-X / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-259-6
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