The Employment Rate of People with Disabilities

Critical issues in evaluating employment policies for the disabled are the measurement of employment status, the measurement of disability status, and the question of which subpopulations of the disabled should be included; no clear consensus has emerged regarding the outcome of these issues, except that surveys must provide more comprehensive coverage.

Focus: Employment

Source: Monthly Labour Review

Readability: Intermediate

Type: PDF Article

Open Source: Yes

External URL: https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/11/art3full.pdf

Keywords: N/A

Learn Tags: Bias Disability Employment

Summary: This article explores three significant factors in evaluating the success of policies for employment of people with disabilities. Namely, the measurement of disability status and the measurement of employment status, along with who to include in the analyses.