Martha Nussbaum is an advocate of the capabilities approach that she shares with Amartya Sen, and in recent years she has set out to demonstrate the inadequacy of competing approaches. In Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach, she took on utilitarianism; in Frontiers of Justice...

A major debate has begun over reports of an unprecedented decline in the employment rate of working-age people with disabilities by those using currently available data sources to track the health employment and economic well-being of the United States population. Many question whether the...

A new and highly controversial literature argues that the employment of working-age people with disabilities fell dramatically relative to the rest of the working-age population in the 1990s. Some dismiss these results as fundamentally flawed because they come from a self-reported work...

Data constraints make the long-term monitoring of the working-age population with disabilities a difficult task. Indeed, the Current Population Survey (CPS) is the only national data source that offers detailed work and income questions and consistently asked measures of disability over a...

United Nations estimated that nearly 10 percent of world population suffers disabilities of one or the other types and proportion is more in the case of underdeveloped counties. If we accept these estimates, populations of person with disabilities in India can be estimated to be more than 10...

Considerable cross-sectional evidence has highlighted the lower employment rates and earnings amongst disabled people in Britain. But very little is known about the progression of disabled people in employment. This study uses data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to examine the labour market...

This paper analyses the economic disadvantage experienced by disabled persons of working-age using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We argue that there are three sources of disadvantage among disabled persons: pre-existing disadvantage among those who become disabled (a...

The Supreme Court has recognized that Congress enacted the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U.S.C. Sec. 1400-1482 (IDEA) to ensure that children with disabilities have available to them a Free Appropriate Public Education that emphasizes special education and related services...

The study compares the labor market experience of men with disabilities before and after the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The handful of studies that have focused on the wage impact of disabilities have either not fully incorporated the probability of employment into the analysis or...

We show the distributional effects of changing the Social Security indexing scheme with an emphasis on the effects upon disabled-worker beneficiaries. Although a class of reform proposals that would slow the rate of growth of initial benefit levels over time - including price indexing and...