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May  2003, Vol. 126, No.5

Disability and the characteristics of employment

Edward H. Yelin
Professor, Medicine and Health Policy, University of California, San Francisco, California.
Email:
yelin2@itsa.ucsf.edu

Laura Trupin
Research Associate, University of California, San Francisco, California.


An analysis of the California Work and Health Survey indicates that persons with disabilities have lower employment rates and less secure kinds of employment than those without disabilities; once on the job, however, the two groups do not differ fundamentally in the nature of their working conditions.

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