TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bound,John
AU  - Waidmann,Timothy
TI  - Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working-Aged Disabled
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7975
PY  - 2000
Y2  - October 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7975
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7975.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

Timothy Waidmann
The Urban Institute
E-Mail: twaidman@ui.urban.org
AB  - During the 1990s, while overall employment rates for working-aged men and women either remained roughly constant (men) or rose (women), employment rates for the disabled fell. During the same period the fraction of the working-aged population receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) benefits increased quite dramatically. We present simple time series and cross-state evidence suggesting that the growth in the DI program can account for much of the decline in the relative employment position of the disabled.
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