TY  - JOUR
AU  - Daly,Mary C.
AU  - Bound,John
TI  - Worker Adaptation and Employer Accommodation Following the Onset of a   Health Impairment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5169
PY  - 1995
Y2  - July 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5169
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5169.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
John Bound
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tel: 734/998-7149
Fax: 734/998-7415
E-Mail: jbound@umich.edu
AB  - The responses of workers and their employers to the onset of work-limiting health impairments were investigated using data from the new Health and Retirement Survey.  The results indicate that many workers who suffer from health limitations are directly accommodated by their employers, and that those who do not receive direct accommodation frequently adapt to their limitations by altering their job demands or by changing jobs.  These findings point to the potential for adjustments on both sides of the market: by employers-- in the form of job accommodation--and by employees--in the form of job change.
ER  -