Description/Abstract
In line with policies long in place in Western Europe, United States disability policy is now attempting to intervene directly in the labor market to increase the employment of people with disabilities. Beginning in July, 1992, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 required employers to provide reasonable accommodation to workers with disabilities. Here we use a continuous time hazard model on retrospective data from the 1978 Social Security Survey of Disability and Work to estimate the effect of employer accommodation on the subsequent job tenure of workers who suffer a work limiting health impairment. We show that the risk of leaving one's employer is significantly influenced both by accommodation and by the Social Security Disability Insurance replacement rate. Accommodation appears to be as important as a worker's expected replacement rate in influencing his risk of job exit.
Document Type
Working Paper
Date
12-1992
Language
English
Series
Income Security Policy Series
Acknowledgements
Arthritis Foundation; The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences; George A. Slotsve, Kathryn H. Anderson and Theodore P. Pincus
Disciplines
Economic Policy | Economics | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | Public Policy
ISSN
1061 1843
Recommended Citation
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Butler, J.S.; and Kim, Yang Woo, "The Importance of Employer Accommodation on the Job Duration of Workers with Disabilities: A Hazard Model Approach" (1992). Center for Policy Research. 409.
https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/409
Source
Local Input
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Additional Information
Policy studies paper no.7