November 12, 1998 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Education has positive impact on
labor market activity of severely disabled
Additional education generally enhances labor
market outcomes. For workers with disabilities, additional education not only improves the
chances of labor market activity, but also reduces the gap in the labor market
participation between workers with severe disabilities and workers with no disability.
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For workers with less than 4 years of high school, 75.2 percent of those
with no disability reported labor market activity, compared with 17.3 percent of those
with severe disabilities, a gap of 57.9 percentage points. For workers with college
degrees, ninety percent of those with no disability reported labor market activity
compared with 52.4 percent of those with a severe disability, a gap of 37.6 percentage
points.
When considering workers with severe disabilities, it is possible that the disability
affects both education and labor market activity. That is, a condition may both impede
acquiring an education and make labor market activity more difficult.
Additional information is available from "Persons with disabilities: Labor Market Activity, 1994",
Monthly Labor Review, September 1998. Data in this report are a product of the
Survey of Income and Program Participation, Bureau of the Census.
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