| The Tables and the data underlying them are used outside litigation. In
a 1992 article in the Journal of
Rehabilitation Administration, authors
Misra,
Bua-lam, and Majumder discussed use of The Tables in improving
benefit-cost analyses of rehabilitation programs. In addition, both government and non-government researchers rely on the CPS employment rates and earnings
figures for non-forensic purposes.
Burkhauser,
Daly, and Houtenville (2001), for example, used data from the March
supplement of the CPS to compare the employment experience of people with
and without disability during the 1990s business cycle.
This paper was published through the Rehabilitation Research and
Training Center (RRTC) for Economic Research on Employment Policy for
Persons with Disabilities at Cornell
University. The Cornell RRTC has also published several other papers using CPS data on persons
with a work disability. These
include three papers by Houtenville
(2000) that studied the prevalence, employment rates, and household
income of people with disability, as well as a paper by
Burkhauser,
Houtenville, and Wittenburg (2001) that compared the employment trends
of persons with work limitations using the CPS and two other government
surveys.
Daly
and Burkhauser (2000) published a paper through the Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco that used CPS data to study the work and income of
men with disability.
Acemoglu
and Angrist (2001), both with the Department of Economics at MIT,
published a paper through the National Bureau of Economic Research that
used CPS data to study the impact of the ADA on the employment of people
with disability.Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, also use CPS data to study persons with a
disability. This work includes an article published in the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics’ Monthly Labor Review (Yelin
and Katz, 1994) that used both the CPS and the National Health
Interview Survey to study the participation trends of people with and
without disability during the period from 1970 to 1992.
Yelin (1996) and
Yelin and Trupin (1997) used the CPS to study the participation and
employment of people with and without disability during the mid-1990s.
Government researchers have also used CPS data to study the experiences of people with and without work
disability. The U.S. Census Bureau measured the participation and employment rates and average
earnings of people with and without disability and published the results
in two key documents (1983
and 1989).
In 2001, the Census Bureau issued a press release that included
basic information from the CPS on the prevalence, employment, earnings,
and education of people with a work disability.
In addition, Jack McNeil
(2002), formerly with the Census Bureau, authored an article
supporting use of the CPS for researching the effects of work disability on
employment.The research list above is not meant to be complete. It does,
however, give an idea of the variety of researchers using CPS data.
The use of the CPS by this sampling of government and
non-government researchers corroborates the validity of the CPS for the
purpose of studying the work experience of people with a work disability. |
