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Peer reviewedHoutenville, Andrew J. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2003
This article compares the economic status of adults with visual impairments with those with non-visual impairments using data from the National Health Interview Survey. Employment rates and mean household incomes were lower and receipt of Social Security Disability Insurance higher among those blind in both eyes than those with less severe visual…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Blindness, Economic Status
Download full textHollenbeck, Kevin; And Others – 1986
A study examined the effects of the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC) program on the employment and earnings of disadvantaged persons. Three outcomes--average quarterly wages, average number of quarters employed, and average wages during employed quarters--were studied for various categories of disadvantaged persons (economically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Patterns
Meyers, Marcia K.; Brady, Henry E.; Seto, Eva Y. – 2000
This book provides new estimates of the private costs and public effects of childhood disabilities among welfare recipients. Based on over 2,000 interviews conducted between 1992-96 with household heads in 3 California counties, the estimates cover direct expenditures by families and indirect costs from employment reductions. The study finds that…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Employment Patterns, Federal Aid
LaPlante, Mitchell P.; And Others – 1997
This report uses data from the 1990 Survey of Income and Program Participation (n=143.5 million) to examine the relationship between work disability, Social Security program participation, and economic well-being. The report estimates the proportion of people with disabilities who receive benefits, how this proportion depends on their disability…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Disabilities, Economic Status
LaPlante, Mitchell P.; Kennedy, Jae; Kaye, H. Stephen; Wenger, Barbara L. – 1996
This statistical abstract summarizes recent data on the relationship between disability and employment. The statistics come from the Current Population Survey, the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation, a poll of 1,000 Americans with disabilities, and administrative data on recipients of Social Security Disability Insurance…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Blacks, Disabilities
Stapleton, David C., Ed.; Burkhauser, Richard V., Ed. – 2003
This book includes revised presentations from an October 2001 meeting of the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research and the Cornell Rehabilitation Research and Training Center that considered the validity of current data for measuring trends in the employment rate of people with disabilities and investigated the causes and…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Chronic Illness, Data Interpretation
