TY - JOUR
AU - Waidmann,, Timothy
AB - Abstract We use trends in self-reported disability to gauge the impact of the growth of disability transfer programs on the labor force attachment of older working-aged men. Our tabulations suggest that between 1949 and 1987, about half of the 4.9 percentage point drop in the labor force participation of men aged 45–54 and between one quarter and one third of the 19.9 point drop among men aged 55–64 represented a movement of men out of the labor force and onto the rolls of transfer programs targeted at the disabled. Since the expansion of transfer programs represents only one of the forces behind this movement, these figures represent upper bounds on the impact of such programs on work force attachment. * The authors wish to thank Robert Barsky, Charles Brown, Alan Garber, Arline Geronimus, Al Hermalin, Kevin Murphy, Walter Oi, Gary Solon, Lois Verbrugge, Barbara Wolfe, an anonymous referee, and participants at seminars at the Institute for Research on Poverty, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the 1990 Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America for comments and suggestions. Thomas Maloney provided able research assistance, and Cynthia Housh provided helpful editorial assistance. This research was supported in part by the University of Michigan and a grant from the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services to the Institute for Research on Poverty. The opinions and conclusions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policy of the sponsoring institutions. This content is only available as a PDF. © 1992 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TI - Disability Transfers, Self-Reported Health, and the Labor Force Attachment of Older Men: Evidence from the Historical Record
JF - The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DO - 10.2307/2118393
DA - 1992-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/disability-transfers-self-reported-health-and-the-labor-force-B7Tbzf8kcg
SP - 1393
EP - 1419
VL - 107
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -