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Actual Earnings Use
Average Statistics
Basic Analysis Methodology
Broad Support
Census Bureau Caveat
Chronic Disability
Corcione Article
CPS Data Validity
CPS Definition of Work Disability
CPS Self-reported Disability
CPS Use by Other Researchers
Daubert/Kumho Standards - WLE
Employment, Earnings, & Disability
Expert Qualifications
First Work Disability Question
Hale Article
Hamel Letter
Heterogeneity
Medical Impairment Ratings
Multi-year Data Averaging
Offset Use
Possibility of Future Disability
Residual Capacity
Sample Selection Bias
Skoog & Toppino Article
Temporary Disability
VALE Software
Veteran's Disability

 

Usual Opposition Position
Some feel that the presence in the CPS survey of people with a temporary disability renders the data invalid for studying the effects of permanent disability on employment.
 
VEI Position
For the existence of temporary disability within the CPS to distort worklife expectancy, one must assume that persons with temporary disability have a significantly different rate of employment during the disability period than persons with permanent disability.

Gibson (2001) used CPS data from 1996 through 1999 to study changes in disability status from year to year and concluded that potential exists for some segment of the disabled categories to be only “temporarily” disabled.  However, the potential for distortion of the overall rates of participation and employment was minimal.
 
Related Challenges
Celarek v. Rutland Mesman v. Crane  
 
Related Articles
Gamboa & Holland (2005) Gibson & Gluck (2000) Gibson & Tierney (2000)
Skoog & Toppino (1999) Staller, Sullivan, & Friedman (2000)  

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