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- Disability Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance
- The paper estimates consumers' valuation of disability insurance using a stochastic lifecycle framework in which disability is modeled as permanent, involuntary retirement. It bases the probabilities of work limiting disability on 25 years of data from the Current Population Survey and examines the changes in the disability gradient for different...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Designing Optimal Disability Insurance: A Case for Asset Testing
- The paper analyzes an implementation of an optimal disability insurance system as a competitive equilibrium with taxes. The paper shows that an asset-tested disability system in which a disability transfer is paid only if an agent has assets below specified maximum implements the optimum. The logic behind the result is...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Colorado Resource Guide for People With Disabilities
- This paper will help people learn more about the kinds of disability and health benefits they may be able to get in the State of Colorado. The Social Security Administration SSA uses a detailed process to decide if they can get benefits under the SSDI Social Security Disability Insurance and...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- Disability - Global Trends and International Perspectives
- Disability among populations is widespread and although many studies on disability exist worldwide there is a lack of comparability not only between countries and also between studies in the same country. The first part of this paper addresses these deficiencies by reviewing and analyzing global data on disability and relating...
- White papers 2001-12-04
- Financing Health Care for Women With Disabilities
- Women with disabilities, a large and growing segment of the U.S. population, are as a group underserved in primary health care services that are appropriate to their needs. To date, few if any formal studies have been done examining the short-term costs or long-term benefits of providing specialized care for...
- White papers 2003-09-25
- School Health Nursing Services Role in Health Care
- The 1999 United States Supreme Court held that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act IDEA requires school districts to provide nursing services when such supportive services are necessary in order for students to access and benefit from their educational program. It is important to consider the current and future impact...
- White papers 2003-08-16
- Effective Participation Of Persons With Disabilities In The One Stops And Workforce Development System
- From the executive summary: ‘Experts suggest that earlier there was a concept of development of a new seamless system of service which was basically to pull together a lot of existing resources and make it more efficient and friendly for persons with disabilities. The system was called one stop delivery...
- Webcasts 2003-08-13
- Studying The Employment Of Persons With Disabilities
- There are varied types of people in the world. Some are blessed with ‘extra something' that provides them an opportunity to take on the world. Still, there are some who possess the talent, but fail to give a proper shape due to lack of means and bad fate. The people...
- Webcasts 2003-06-18
- Employment Of People With Disabilities: US Trends And State-To-State Comparisons
- The U.S economy is facing tough challenge of providing employment to people with disability. It has been proved that there are opportunities, but they need to be brought in the forefront. The opportunities need to be brought forth before the disabled section of population so that they can unify their...
- Webcasts 2001-11-14
- Veterans' Disability Benefits: Claims Processing Challenges and Opportunities for Improvements
- The Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, asked GAO to report on the claims processing challenges and opportunities facing the Department of Veterans Affairs VA disability compensation and pension program. VA's outdated disability determination process does not reflect a current view of the relationship between impairments and...
- White papers 2005-12-07
- Resources for Employing People With Disabilities
- North Dakota ND has a strong commitment to the development of employment opportunities for people with disabilities. More than 128,000 of North Dakota's 630,000 residents have a disability, about 68,000 are of working-age, and roughly half (32,000) of the members of this sub-group are employed (ND State Rehabilitation Council, 2000)....
- White papers 2004-11-10
- Tapping the Talents of People With Disabilities
- People with disabilities have the skills, abilities and experience to add value in a competitive workplace setting. In fact, the tangible returns to organizations that have broadly inclusive workplace cultures range from improved productivity, quality and morale to lower turnover and enhanced reputation as an employer of choice. A second...
- White papers 2005-07-13
- Compensating Workers for Permanent Partial Disabilities
- Workers' compensation is the nation's oldest social insurance program. There is virtually no federal role in the state workers' compensation programs. As a result, those programs provide widely different coverage, disparate benefits with different rules, and administrative practices that can be vastly dissimilar. Perhaps the greatest variability is in how...
- White papers 2005-06-06
- Disability Employment Policies Within the Civil Service
- The paper is focused on the disability employment policies within the civil service. Specific case studies from Canada, Germany, Norway and United Kingdom have been reviewed alongside with strategies to incorporate disabled persons into the mainstream workforce and costs associated with this. The underlying principle of policies currently promoted by...
- White papers 2001-05-23
- Pre-Employment And The ADA: Disability Questions And Medical Exams
- From the executive summary: ‘In the past, some employment applications and interviews requested information about an applicant's physical or mental condition. The information was often used to exclude applicants with disabilities before their ability to perform the job was even evaluated. It was observed that applicants were often asked...
- Webcasts 2004-05-26
- Promoting the Hiring of Workers with Disabilities
- The widespread availability of computers, a shrinking pool of available workers and a drive towatd diversity have combined to make it easier for persons with disabilities to become productive members of the nation's workforce.
- White papers 2003-06-03
- Preventative Measures and Reasonable Accommodations
- Making physical modifications within the existing work environment is a healthy start on making the workplace more accommodating for future employees who may have disabilities. Even though employers are not required to make workplace changes until an accommodation is actually necessary, they do have an obligation under Title I of...
- White papers 2003-03-04
- Enabling Safe Evacuations
- The article says that The Americans with Disabilities Act ADA requires employers to modify their policies and procedures to include people with disabilities. These requirements apply also to evacuation plans. Employers may be required to provide reasonable accommodations to employees so they can evacuate during emergencies.Some employers may be leery...
- Case studies 2002-01-01
- Integrate Benefits for Workers' Well-Being
- Improving and maintaining employees' health should be the key issue for employers that want to combine short- and long-term disability, occupational and non-occupational insurance providers. An added advantage to integrating providers is that all disability and leave cases are handled similarly. This creates an atmosphere of equality. Initially, supervisors who...
- White papers 2003-01-17
- Several States Bar Consideration of Mitigating Measures
- The article explains that even if someone using mitigating measures is not substantially limited in a major life activity, the person might have a disability. In assessing whether persons requesting accommodations currently have disabilities, employers should not speculate about whether workers' conditions would improve if they took medications. Requests for...
- White papers 2002-05-03
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