Measuring the effects of employment protection policies: Theory and evidence from the Americans with Disabilities Act

Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is an employment protection policy for disabled workers. By exploiting cross-state variation in pre-ADA legislation, we measure the effects of the law on transition rates of disabled workers. We find a decline in employment-to-non-employment trans...

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Main Authors: Kim, S. (Author), Rhee, S. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2018
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