scholarly journals The Economic Status of People with Disabilities and their Families since the Great Recession

2021 ◽  
pp. 1.000-30.000
Author(s):  
Leila Bengali ◽  
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Mary C. Daly ◽  
Olivia Lofton ◽  
Robert G. Valletta ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
The Great Recession

scholarly journals The Economic Status of People with Disabilities and Their Families since the Great Recession

2021 ◽  
Vol 695 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Leila Bengali ◽  
Mary C. Daly ◽  
Olivia Lofton ◽  
Robert G. Valletta
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Disability Benefits ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Using Data

People with disabilities face substantial barriers to sustained employment and stable, adequate income. We assess how they and their families fared during the long economic expansion that followed the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009, using data from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) and the March CPS annual income supplement. We find that the expansion bolstered the well-being of people with disabilities and, in particular, their labor market engagement. We also find that federal disability benefits fell during the expansion. On balance, our results suggest that sustained economic growth can bolster the labor market engagement of people with disabilities and potentially reduce their reliance on disability benefits.

Vocational Rehabilitation Employment of People with Disabilities: Descriptive Analysis of U.S. Data from 2008 to 2012

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott H. Yamamoto ◽  
Deborah L. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Client Characteristics ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
White Males ◽  
Employment Rates ◽  
The U.S

People with disabilities (PWD) in the U.S. experience lower employment rates and wages than people without disabilities, and unfortunately this historical trend has had negative consequences for our society. A major federal initiative to address this problem was in creating State-Federal Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services to assist PWD to obtain and retain employment. This study analyzed and described VR employment outcomes across several consecutive recent years and across states and client characteristics. From 2008 to 2012, which included the years of the ‘Great Recession’, the upper Northeast and the South had the highest VR employment closure rates; rates among white males were the highest. Results of this study have important implications for researchers, VR services, and policymakers in a larger context of an economy that continues to evolve and technological advancements that will create new opportunities but also challenges.

scholarly journals Labour Inclusion of People with Disabilities: What Role Do the Social and Solidarity Economy Entities Play?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1079 ◽  
Author(s):  
María-José Calderón-Milán ◽  
Beatriz Calderón-Milán ◽  
Virginia Barba-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Equitable Distribution ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Social

Economic theory presupposes that the Entities of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) should exhibit a greater sensitivity in the labour insertion of groups in danger of social exclusion than should the Capitalist Companies (CC). Therefore, it is expected that the SSE will employ a greater number of people with socio-labour characteristics among its workers against whom the ordinary labour market discriminates negatively. In this context, the objective of this research is focused on the analysis of socio-labour characteristics, salary differences and the degree of inequality in the distribution of salary income of the group of workers with disabilities in the SSE compared to CCs in Spain during the Great Recession (2007–2013) and the beginning of the current economic recovery (2013–2016). Using the data from the Continuous Sample of Working Histories (MCVL, in Spanish), our results show a greater sensitivity from the SSE compared to the CC in labour inclusion of workers with disabilities as well as for most socio-labour characteristics against which the ordinary labour market discriminates negatively. A second conclusion of the results is that the SSE provides a more equitable distribution of salary income for workers with disabilities than the CC, although the wages are comparatively lower.

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