Showing papers by "Robert Haveman published in 1990"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the disabled working age population and track the changes in their labor market performance, their receipt of public income transfers, and their economic well-being over the 1962-1984 period.
Abstract: This paper focuses on the disabled working age population and tracks the changes in their labor market performance, their receipt of public income transfers, and their economic well-being over the 1962-1984 period. The changes over time in these indicators are compared with those of the nondisabled population. The paper concludes that from the 1960s until the mid-1970s, the disabled improved their performance in the labor market; their real earnings rose both absolutely and relatively. The economic well-being of disabled males also increased rapidly during this period. However, in the last half of the 1970s the earnings of the disabled population fell rapidly, although the rapid growth of transfer income cushioned this fall until the late 1970s. Then, and especially after 1980, the controversial retrenchment in disability benefit programs struck, and the well-being of the disabled fell further.
90 citations
TL;DR: Self-reported disability has increased in recent decades among working-age persons, while age-specified mortality rates conversely have fallen, and the proportions of people meeting the definition graphically trace a hump-shaped pattern, at which time downturns occur.
Abstract: Self-reported disability has increased in recent decades among working-age persons, while age-specified mortality rates conversely have fallen. Current Population Survey data permit defining a statistical measure of disability based on the presence of work limitations and/or receipt of disability transfers tied to health-constrained employment. The proportions of people meeting the definition graphically trace a hump-shaped pattern, rising from the 1960s to peaks in the mid to late 1970s, at which time downturns occur. Changes in impairment/pathology alone are unlikely to account for the observed pattern; more plausibly, the changes are due to individuals' propensity to report health problems as the reason for constrained work or to receive disability transfers.
56 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors view the role that social experiments in general, and the income maintenance experiments and work/welfare demonstrations in particular, have played in the policy process through the lens provided by the knowledge provided by social experiments.
Abstract: This paper is an exploratory attempt to view the role that social experiments in general, and the income maintenance experiments and work/welfare demonstrations in particular, have played in the policy process through the lens provided by the knowledge ...
8 citations