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Accounting for Recent Declines in Employment Rates among the Working-Aged Disabled

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John Bound
Timothy Waidmann

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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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  1. Parsons, Donald O, 1980. "The Decline in Male Labor Force Participation," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 88(1), pages 117-34, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Bound, John, 1989. "The Health and Earnings of Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 79(3), pages 482-503, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Daron Acemoglu & Joshua Angrist, 1998. "Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act," Working papers 98-13, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics.
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  4. Bound, John & Waidmann, Timothy, 1992. "Disability Transfers, Self-Reported Health, and the Labor Force Attachment of Older Men: Evidence from the Historical Record," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, vol. 107(4), pages 1393-419, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. John Bound & Julie Berry Cullen & Austin Nichols & Lucie Schmidt, 2002. "The Welfare Implications of Increasing DI Benefit Generosity," Working Papers wp024, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center. [Downloadable!]
  2. Susan Chen & Wilbert van der Klaauw, 2006. "The Work Disincentive Effects of the Disability Insurance Program in the 1990s," Working Papers 06-05, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Lisa Barrow & Kristin F. Butcher, 2004. "Not working: demographic changes, policy changes, and the distribution of weeks (not) worked," Working Paper Series WP-04-23, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. [Downloadable!]
  4. Roger Wilkins, 2003. "Labour Market Outcomes and Welfare Dependence of Persons with Disabilities in Australia," Melbourne Institute Working Paper Series wp2003n02, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne. [Downloadable!]
  5. Richard V. Burkhauser & Mary C. Daly & Andrew J. Houtenville & Nigar Nargis, 2001. "The employment of working-age people with disabilities in the 1980s and 1990s: what current data can and cannot tell us," Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory 2001-20, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. [Downloadable!]
  6. Richard V. Burkhauser & Mathis Schröder, 2004. "A Cross-National Comparison of the Employment for Men With Disabilities: The United States and Germany in the 1980s and 1990s”," Working Papers wp071, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center. [Downloadable!]
  7. Darius Lakdawalla & Dana Goldman & Jay Bhattacharya, 2001. "Are the Young Becoming More Disabled?," NBER Working Papers 8247, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  8. Richard V. Burkhauser & Mary C. Daly & Andrew J. Houtenville & Nigar Nargis, 2002. "Self-reported work limitation data: what they can and cannot tell us," Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory 2002-22, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. [Downloadable!]
  9. Christine Jolls, . "Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects," American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings 1078, American Law & Economics Association. [Downloadable!]
  10. Mary C. Daly & Richard V. Burkhauser, 2002. "The Supplemental Security Income program," Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory 2002-20, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. [Downloadable!]
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  11. David H. Autor & Mark G. Duggan, 2002. "The Rise in Disability Recipiency and the Decline in Unemployment," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College 2002-07, Center for Retirement Research. [Downloadable!]
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  12. Christine Jolls, 2004. "Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects," NBER Working Papers 10528, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  13. Christine Jolls, 2004. "Identifying the Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Using State-Law Variation: Preliminary Evidence on Educational Participation Effects," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(2), pages 447-453, May. [Downloadable!]
  14. Herbert Emery & Cara L. Brown, 2008. "The Impact of Disability on Earnings and Labour Force Participation in Canada: Evidence from the 2001 PALS," Working Papers 2008-26, Department of Economics, University of Calgary, revised 27 Jan 2008. [Downloadable!]
  15. Burkhauser, Richard V. & Butler, J. S. & Gulcin Gumus, 2003. "Dynamic Modeling of the SSDI Application Timing Decision: The Importance of Policy Variables," IZA Discussion Papers 942, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  16. John Bound & Todd Stinebrickner & Timothy Waidman, 2004. "Using a Structural Retirement Model to Simulate the Effect of Changes to the OASDI and Medicare Programs," Working Papers wp091, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center. [Downloadable!]
  17. Richard V. Burkhauser & Mary C. Daly, 2001. "United States disability policy in a changing environment," Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory 2002-21, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. [Downloadable!]
  18. Christine Jolls & J.J. Prescott, 2004. "Disaggregating Employment Protection: The Case of Disability Discrimination," NBER Working Papers 10740, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  19. John Bound & Julie Berry Cullen & Austin Nichols & Lucie Schmidt, 2002. "The Welfare Implications of Increasing Disability Insurance Benefit Generosity," NBER Working Papers 9155, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  20. Richard V. Burkhauser & Mary C. Daly & Andrew J. Houtenville & Nigar Nargis, 2001. "Economic outcomes of working-age people with disabilities over the business cycle: an examination of the 1980s and 1990s," Working Papers in Applied Economic Theory 2001-07, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. [Downloadable!]
  21. Alan B. Krueger & Bruce D. Meyer, 2002. "Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance," NBER Working Papers 9014, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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