Tag: labor economics
Abstract Disabled veterans are less likely to work today than in the past; between 1995 and 2014, the percent of veterans who were working while receiving disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dropped from 62 percent to 49 percent. This drop has led the VA – which liberalized the list of health conditions…
The brief’s key findings are: Job-changers over age 50 increasingly end up in “old-person” jobs, with a high share of older hires relative to prime-age hires. These basic findings hold by gender and by education. However, the overall outlook has improved since the late 1990s for all groups, particularly for older women with more education…
