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Articles on various disability, data, and
worklife
expectancy issues
These articles deal with a variety of disability, data, or worklife-related
issues.
Bolton, Brian
F., James L. Bellini, and Jeffrey B. Brookings. “Predicting Client
Employment Outcomes from Personal History, Functional Limitations, and
Rehabilitation Services.” Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin,
44(1), Fall 2000, 10-21.
In a study of rehabilitation
clients, the authors find that, while personal history makes a robust
contribution to predicting employment, specific functional limitations are
generally unimportant in predicting employment.
MacDonald-Wilson, Kim L., E. Sally
Rogers, and Joseph Massaro. "Identifying relationships between functional
limitations, job accommodations, and demographic characteristics of persons with
psychiatric disabilities." Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation,
18, 2003, 15-24.
In a study dealing with psychiatric disability, the authors
evaluated four functional limitations (social, emotional, cognitive, and
physical), and found that “neither diagnostic category nor type of functional
limitation predicted job or employment tenure” (p. 23).
Mitchell, Judith M., Rodney H. Adkins, and Bryan, J. Kemp. "The Effects of
Aging on Employment of People With and Without Disabilities.” Rehabilitation
Counseling Bulletin, 49(3), 2006, 157-165.
In a study of persons with certain types of physical disability, the authors
found that those with a disability had a faster and earlier decline in
employment than did those without disability. College education improved
employment rates for younger workers, but did not prevent significant employment
loss for persons with disability in their 40s or beyond.
Power, Paul W., David B. Hershenson, and
Nancy K. Schlossberg. "Midlife Transition and Disability." In Robert
P. Marinelli and Arthur E. Dell Orto (Eds.), The Psychological and Social
Impact of Disability, (3rd ed., pp. 81-91). New York: Springer.
Midlife transitions are made harder by the presence of a
disability. The authors note the difficulties of aging with a disability
and discuss the three domains (competencies, personality, and goals) which
interact during a person’s career. In an adult, the domains are generally
in balance, and changes in one will affect the other two. A midlife
disability, however, is likely to affect all three domains simultaneously, and
leave fewer strengths from which to draw, thus leaving the person worse off than
they would have been without disability.
Stern, Steven. "Measuring the
Effect of Disability on Labor Force Participation." Journal of Human
Resources, 24(3), Summer 1989, 361-395.
The author tests for possible problems with lack of
exogeneity in survey data by measuring labor force participation using
self-reported disability. He finds that any potential bias is small and that
“the standard disability measures are powerful and reasonably exogenous
predictors of labor force participation” (p. 392).
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