The Wage and Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act

By Thomas DeLeire. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research

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Employment of People with Disabilities Following the ADA (2003, neutral): “5 DeLeire (1997) discounts compositional changes by noting that there was little change in the distribution of impairments among those reporting a work disability, whereas one might expect increased reporting of less visible impairments after the ADA.”
Outsourcing at Will: The Contribution of Unjust Dismissal Doctrine to the Growth of Employment Outsourcing (2003, background): “Acemoglu and Angrist (2001) and DeLeire (2000) conclude that the Americans with Disabilities Act reduced the employment of the disabled, while Oyer and Schaefer (2000, 2002) present evidence that the Civil Rights Act of 1991 increased firms’ use of mass layoffs as a shield for the firing of black…”
Disability, gender, and the British labour market (2006, methodology): “, who assume there are no unobserved differences in productivity between the disabled and non-disabled is our use of an approach previously adopted by DeLeire (2001) on the US Survey of Income and Program Participation over the period 198493.”
Disability and the labour market: a review of the empirical evidence (2008, background): “disability (see Acemoglu and Angrist, 2001 and DeLeire, 2000 for US evidence and”
Labor Supply Effects of Social Insurance (2002, neutral): “Acemoglu and Angrist (2001) and DeLeire (2000) look at another policy as a possible cause of the decline in labor force participation of those with a self-reported disability, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.”
The Labor Market Effects of Disability Discrimination Laws (2003, methodology): “DeLeire (2000) nds that the real values of SSI payments were constant from 1986–94, and also argues that the ve percent drop in denial rates during 1989– 92 is small relative to the eight percent decline in employment he nds for disabled workers during that period.”
The work disincentive effects of the disability insurance program in the 1990s (2008, background): “Gruber (2000) exploits an exogenous policy change conducted in Canada in 1987 where the benefit levels of the rest of the country were adjusted upwards to meet those of Quebec province.”
The Unsustainable Rise of the Disability Rolls in the United States: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options (2011, background): “Firms directly affect their workers’ UI and WC claims by choosing 8See DeLeire (2000) and Acemoglu and Angrist (2001) for discussion of the role that the ADA may have played in reducing the employment of workers with disabilities.”
The Costs of Wrongful-Discharge Laws (2006, neutral): “Acemoglu and Angrist (2001), DeLeire (2000), and Jolls and Prescott (2004) present evidence that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) decreased employment of disabled persons.”
Employability Skills Valued by Employers as Important for Entry-Level Employees With and Without Disabilities (2012, background): “As a group, they encounter issues such as unemployment or underemployment, low wages, and a lack of support in the workplace (DeLeire, 2000; Yamaki & Fujiura, 2002).”