This working paper estimated employment and offered wages of young adults with and without disabilities and found new evidence that employment and wage offer gaps between adults with and without disabilities emerge early and are especially large for those with severe or mental limitations. The...

This article examines the impacts of the Youth Transition Demonstration, an initiative of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to improve employment outcomes for youth with disabilities.

Summarizes 2007 employment rates at the national and state levels.

The authors use new data from the National Survey of SSI Children and Families to study the transition period for a cohort of child Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients after redetermination of benefits at age 18. The article examines differences between those who do not receive...

Despite decades of growth in federal disability expenditures, the economic status of people with disabilities has eroded relative to the status of those without disabilities. Rather than tighten eligibility or reduce program benefits to slow expenditure growth, this article outlines an...

This report provides statistics on employment and benefit outcomes for Ticket to Work (TTW) participants since program inception in 2002 and compares them to outcomes for other Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries.

This article specifies a dynamic career decision model that includes military service options to understand how human capital, compensation, the business cycle, and combat risk affect the military labor supply. Using data on males from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, experimental...