Title

Contrasting the Employment of Single Mothers and People with Disabilities

Publication Date

January 2003

Abstract

The transition of single women with children off the welfare rolls and into employment (see Figures 1 and 2) in the 1990s has been described as “stunning” by leading policy researchers (see, for instance, Blank 2002). The authors in The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities: A Policy Puzzle (Stapleton and Burkhauser 2003) document and analyze an equally stunning transition of working-age people with disabilities out of the workforce and onto disability income support programs (see Figures 1 and 2), despite the upsurge in government rhetoric proclaiming increased employment and economic independence as a primary policy goal. Employment and program participation trends for both populations departed sharply from trends in the prior decade.

Comments

Stapleton, D., & Burkhauser, R (2003). Contrasting the employment of single mothers and people with disabilities. Employment Research, 10 (3). Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/edicollect/164

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