Doctor using stethoscope listening to senior patient breathing at her house – using face mask

Disability and Employment: Reevaluating the Evidence in Light of Reporting Errors

Working Paper by Brent Kreider and John V. Pepper

September 6, 2002

Abstract Long-standing debates about relationships between labor supply behavior and health status among persons nearing retirement age have centered largely on disagreements about the reliability of self-reported health indicators. In light of reporting errors in work capacity, this paper considers the problem of predicting how employment rates vary with disability status when “true” disability is…

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The Effect of Unplanned Changes in Marital and Disability Status: Interrupted Trajectories and Labor

Working Paper by John B. Williamson and Tay K. McNamara

September 5, 2002

Abstract This study explored the effect of unplanned changes in disability and marital status on labor force participation for a sample of just under six thousand men and women born between 1931 and 1941. It was based on wave 1 (1992) through wave 4 (1998) of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data. Binomial hierarchica…