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Rising Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: The Case of Working-Age People with Disabilities

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dc.contributor.authorBurkhauser, Richard V.
dc.contributor.authorHoutenville, Andrew J.
dc.contributor.authorRovba , Ludmila
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-06T23:08:56Z
dc.date.available2020-12-06T23:08:56Z
dc.date.issued2005-01-01
dc.description.abstractThe United States Bureau of the Census creates official poverty rates for most economically vulnerable populations, but not for working-age people with disabilities. We create a comparable poverty measure for working-age people with and without disabilities using March Current Population Surveys (1980-2005) and find that the poverty rate of working-age people with disabilities relative to working-age people without disabilities has grown considerably. While the poverty rate of working-age people without disabilities fell by over 20 percent over the period 1983 to 2004 (trough years of the 1980s and 1990s business cycles), the poverty rate of those with disabilities remained about the same. Using shift-share analysis we show that the increase in the poverty rate of working-age people with disabilities over the 1980s business cycle was not greatly affected by compositional changes, but almost two-thirds of the decline in their poverty rate over the 1990s business cycle was do to composition changes. When we control for compositional change, we find that the underlying poverty rate of working-age people with disabilities was greater in 2004 than in 1983. When we adjust for compositional changes in both groups, we find that the uncontrolled increase in the relative poverty risk of working-age people with disabilities is slightly reduced over the 1980s, but rises even more over the 1990s business cycle. But on net, the underlying relative poverty rate of working-age people with disabilities is far higher in 2004 than in 1983. The first step in reversing these socially unacceptable outcomes is for the United States government to provide an official poverty rate measure of the working-age population with disabilities, both to better track the progress of this economically vulnerable and little understood population and to determine the causes for the increase in their risk of poverty.
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dc.identifier.other100682
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/89920
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectcharts
dc.subjectdata
dc.subjectdependence
dc.subjectdevelopmental disabled
dc.subjectdisabilities
dc.subjectdisability
dc.subjectDisability Employment Research
dc.subjectEDIcat4-DER
dc.subjectdisability policy
dc.subjectdisability statistics
dc.subjectdisable
dc.subjectdisabled
dc.subjectdisablement
dc.subjectdisabling
dc.subjectearnings
dc.subjecteconomic
dc.subjecteconomics
dc.subjecteconomy
dc.subjectemploy
dc.subjectemploying
dc.subjectemployment
dc.subjectestimates
dc.subjectfigures
dc.subjectgraphs
dc.subjectGuiding Principles
dc.subjecthandicap
dc.subjecthandicapped
dc.subjectimpairment
dc.subjectincome
dc.subjectinformation
dc.subjectLabor Market
dc.subjectlack of income
dc.subjectlearning disability
dc.subjectlimitation
dc.subjectmental handicap
dc.subjectmental retardation
dc.subjectneed
dc.subjectnumbers
dc.subjectphysical disability
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectpolicy
dc.subjectpoor
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjectprocedures
dc.subjectpublic policy
dc.subjectpublic programs
dc.subjectregulation
dc.subjectrules
dc.subjectself-employment
dc.subjectspecial need
dc.subjectstatistic
dc.subjectstatistics
dc.subjectstats
dc.subjectstatute
dc.subjectwelfare
dc.subjectwork
dc.titleRising Poverty in the Midst of Plenty: The Case of Working-Age People with Disabilities
dc.typearticle
local.authorAffiliationBurkhauser, Richard V.: rvb1@cornell.edu Cornell University
local.authorAffiliationHoutenville, Andrew J.: ajh29@cornell.edu Cornell University
local.authorAffiliationRovba , Ludmila: Cornell University

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