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Synthesis Report: Disability Employment Policy Research Synthesis
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Findings:
Many disability employment interventions improved participant employment and earnings outcomes but few improved education and training, health, or public benefits receipt outcomes.
Transition programs and support services interventions improved the widest variety of outcome categories.
VR interventions improved employment and earnings outcomes but the effectiveness differed by disability type and the types of services received.
Supported employment interventions improved employment and earnings outcomes but the evidence base is small.
The two high-rated studies on benefits offsets showed no significant impact on earnings outcomes and an unfavorable impact on public benefits receipt outcomes.
The only high-rated study of a mental and behavioral health supports intervention showed promise.
Studies assessing the PROMISE intervention across multiple time points reported changes in outcomes.
Studies assessing the same intervention across multiple sites reported differing results.
Synthesis Report: Older Workers Synthesis
Topic Area: Older Workers
Findings:
Although most workforce programs serve older workers, few specifically focus on this population, and research has not evaluated these programs’ impacts.
Studies that examined the impact of broader workforce programs, such as the Workforce Investment Act Dislocated Worker program, did not focus on older workers.
Early retirement among older workers was found to be lower in firms that allow flexible work schedules.
Changes to the Social Security retirement benefits appear to have been able to influence older workers’ decisions regarding whether to stay in the labor force.
Changes in health insurance provision have mixed or small impacts on older workers’ employment outcomes.
Synthesis Report: Research Synthesis: Opportunities for Youth
Topic Area: Opportunities for Youth
Findings:
Successful programs often involved a substantial time commitment from participating youth.
Many successful programs involved a job placement component or job search assistance.
Positive impacts tended to be realized in the short term and fade over time.
More information is needed on the replicability of some programs.
Mamun, Arif, O’Leary, Paul, Wittenburg, David C., & Gregory, Jesse. (2011). Employment Among Social Security Disability Program Beneficiaries, 1996–2007. Social Security Bulletin, 71(3).
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Autor, D. H., Duggan, M., Greenberg, K., & Lyle, D. S. (2016). The impact of disability benefits on labor supply: Evidence from the VA’s disability compensation program. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(3), 31-68. http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-applied/ [Impact of eligibility expansion]
Topic Area: Veterans
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Liu, Su, & Stapleton, David C. (2011). Longitudinal Statistics on Work Activity and Use of Employment Supports for New Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries. Social Security Bulletin, 71(3).
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
- Button, P. (2018). Expanding employment discrimination protections for individuals with disabilities: Evidence from California. Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 71(2), 365–393. https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793917716633
Topic Area: Employer Compliance
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness: Tremblay, T., Smith, J., Xie, H., & Drake, R. (2006). Effect of benefits counseling services on employment outcomes for people with psychiatric disabilities. Psychiatric Services, 57(6), 816-821.
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Study Type: Causal Impact Analysis
Outcome Effectiveness:Ben-Shalom, Yonatan, and Stapleton, David. (2013). Trends in the Composition and Outcomes of Young Social Security Disability Awardees. Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC) working paper, WP 2013-284. Retrieved from http://www.mrrc.isr.umich.edu/publications/papers/pdf/wp284.pdf.
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
Campbell, K., Bond, G. R., Drake, R. E., McHugo, G. J., & Xie, H. X. (2010, August). Client Predictors of Employment Outcomes in High-Fidelity Supported Employment: A Regression Analysis. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 198(8).
Topic Area: Disability Employment Policy
Study Type: Descriptive Analysis
