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 consequences of the declining rate of employment shown in the data. Chapters are as follows: "Introduction" (Burkhauser, Stapleton); "A User's Guide to Current Statistics on the Employment of People with Disabilities" (Burkhauser et al.); "Employment Declines among People with Disabilities" (Houtenville, Daly); "Have Changes in the Nature of Work or the Labor Market Reduced Employment Prospects of Workers with Disabilities?" (Stapleton et al.); "Rising Health Care Expenditures and the Employment of People with High-Cost Chronic Conditions" (Hill et al.); "Employment and the Changing Disability Population" (Kaye); "The American with Disabilities Act and the Employment of People with Disabilities" (DeLeire); "Does the Definition Affect the Outcome? (Kruse, Schur); "Is It Time to Declare the ADA a Failed Law?" (Blanck et al.); "Social Security Disability Insurance and the Recent Decline in the Employment Rate of People with Disabilities" (Goodman, Waidmann); "A Review of the Evidence and Its Implications for Policy Change" (Burkhauser, Stapleton). (Contains 70 figures and 41 tables. Chapters include substantial references.)