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The Importance of State Anti-Discrimination Laws on Employer Accommodation and the Movement of their Employees onto Social Security Disability Insurance
by Richard V. Burkhauser, Lauren Nicholas and Maximilian D. Schmeiser
WP 2011-251
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- Using Health and Retirement Study data with linked Social Security Administration records, we find that twenty-eight percent of individuals who experienced a work limitation while employed received an accommodation.
- The probability of receiving an accommodation increased in the post-1992 period following the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
- Our estimates confirm that accommodation effectively reduces the probability of application for SSDI following the onset of a work limitation.
- Providing an employee with an accommodation following the onset of a work limitation would reduce applications to the SSDI program by 27 percent within one year of onset and 30 percent within five years of onset.
- These findings suggest that the provision of workplace accommodations would be an effective strategy for reducing application for SSDI benefits, and potentially the number of people receiving SSDI.
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