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In What Occupations did SSDI Applicants Work? New Statistics and their Implications for Policy

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  • April Yanyuan Wu

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The issue brief provides new statistics on the attributes of the jobs held by applicants to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) before they applied to SSDI.

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  • April Yanyuan Wu, "undated". "In What Occupations did SSDI Applicants Work? New Statistics and their Implications for Policy," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 57fd0a0ecf484f83970559eec, Mathematica Policy Research.
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    5. David H. Autor & Frank Levy & Richard J. Murnane, 2003. "The skill content of recent technological change: an empirical exploration," Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, issue nov.
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