Three important issues have recently attracted researchers to study
the economics of disability. First with the availability of
sophisticated "data sets," it has become possible to conduct highly
quantative investigations of the relative economic impacts of
various types of disabling health problems. Second, the passage of
the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1991, and the subsequent
implementation of its employment provisions, focused national
attention on the continuing scarcity of employment opportunities
for disabled persons. The tools of analysis that have been
developed over the past several decades to study racial and gender
discrimination in labor markets are applied in this book to study
the experiences of persons with disabilities. Third, the past
several decades have witnessed a rapid growth in the public and
private costs of disability support programs. Many economists
recognize the need to design such programs that would provide
continued economic security, without the work disincentives, high
budgetary costs, and efficiency losses of existing programs.
A major purpose of this volume is to bring together empirical
studies dealing with all three of the above issues in a single
volume. By doing this we can illustrate the breadth of current
research in the field and allow the reader to see the connections
and common threads that underlie this scope of concerns and
research objectives.
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