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1.	Mann, David R. Wittenburg, David C.
1.	Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, April 2014. Also: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/~/media/publications/pdfs/disability/explaining_differentials_wp.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Keyword(s): Disability; Employment; Labor Force Participation; Wage Gap; Wages; Wages, Reservation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to estimate and decompose the employment and offered wages of young adults with and without disabilities. Those with functional limitations that are severe or mental have the lowest relative employment rates and wage offers. The employment rate gaps between the “no limitations” group and the “severe limitations” and “mental limitations” groups are 20.0 and 15.0 percentage points, respectively. These large gaps in employment provide quantitative evidence that many young adults with disabilities decide not to enter the labor force because they receive wage offers that are below their reservation wage. The wage offer differential between those without limitations and those with severe limitations or mental limitations are 10.9 and 52.1 percentage points, respectively. We attribute most of the employment rate gaps to observed factors, whereas most of the wage offer gaps are the result of unobserved factors. Removing the proportion of the wage offer gap attributable to unexplained differences increases the employment rate among those with mental functional limitations by 1.4 percent.
	Bibliography Citation Mann, David R. and David C. Wittenburg. "Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities." Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, April 2014.

2.	Mann, David R. Wittenburg, David C.
2.	Starting Behind: Wage and Employment Differentials Between Young Adults With and Without Disabilities Journal of Disability Policy Studies 26,2 (September 2015): 89-99. Also: http://dps.sagepub.com/content/26/2/89.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Disability; Employment; Wage Gap; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We estimate the wage offers and employment of young adults with and without disabilities using National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data. We find evidence that wage offer and employment gaps between adults with and without disabilities emerge early and are largest for those with mental limitations or any type of severe limitation. The wage offer gaps we estimate between people with and without disabilities are almost always larger than the wage gaps between those groups. These employment and wage offer gaps that exist in early adulthood likely help explain some of the differences in human capital, employment, and earnings between older adults with and without disabilities. The results also highlight the need for interventions that improve the employability and wage offers of youth with disabilities.
	Bibliography Citation Mann, David R. and David C. Wittenburg. "Starting Behind: Wage and Employment Differentials Between Young Adults With and Without Disabilities." Journal of Disability Policy Studies 26,2 (September 2015): 89-99.

3.	Wittenburg, David C. Stapleton, David C.
3.	Summary Review of Data Sources for School to Work Transitions by Youth with Disabilities - Policy Brief Policy Brief (September 2002), Employment and Disability Institute, Cornell University. Also: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1177&context=edicollect Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Employment and Disability Institute (EDI) Keyword(s): Data Quality/Consistency; Disability; National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AddHealth); Probability judgments (also see Risk Perception); Program Participation/Evaluation; Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); Transition, School to Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This brief summarizes our findings from a review of potential data sources to examine school-to-work transitions by youth with disabilities (Wittenburg and Stapleton, 2000). Our objective was to identify data sources for future school-to-work analyses that contain longitudinal information on youth with disabilities. We conclude that the following data sources are most promising based on our selection criteria: Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP); National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health); Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) 911 Database and RSA's Longitudinal Study of Vocational Rehabilitation (VR); state administrative data (multiple states); National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88); National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students (NLTS); National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students-2 (NLTS-2); and National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: 1997 (NLSY97).
	Bibliography Citation Wittenburg, David C. and David C. Stapleton. "Summary Review of Data Sources for School to Work Transitions by Youth with Disabilities - Policy Brief." Policy Brief (September 2002), Employment and Disability Institute, Cornell University.

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