Capturing the Elusive Working-Age Population With Disabilities: Reconciling Conflicting Social Success Estimates From the Current Population Survey and American Community Survey

Journal of Disability Policy Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 195-205

  Burkhauser, Richard V ^a,b   Houtenville, Andrew J ^c   Tennant, Jennifer R ^d  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

CPS; employment; program participation; six question sequence of disability; work activity limitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893687640     PISSN: 10442073     EISSN: 15384802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1044207312446226     Document Type: Article

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