Recent veterans, although demographically dfferentfrom and more likely to have a disability
than the combinedpopulation of nonveterans and veterans whose service concluded before …

Vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies can potentially help disability-insured workers stay
at work or return to work when they experience the onset of a disabling physical or mental …

Objectives: To address potential equity concerns about the US Department of Veterans
Affairs'(VA) process for adjudicating military service-related disability claims. Methods …

ABSTRACT Objective: From 2001 to 2006, the Army deployed over 717,000 personnel to
Iraq and Afghanistan, with over 15,000 troops wounded. Little is known about the impact of …

BACKGROUND: In 2011, about 1.8 million or 8 percent of the 22.2 million veterans were
women in the US. The unemployment rate for female veterans of the wars in Iraq and …

Summary The General Accounting Office (GAO) has made recommendations for improving
the disability programs by citing practices that have been successful in Germany, Sweden …

Introduction Despite persistently low employment rates among working-age adults with
disabilities, prior research on employer practices and attitudes toward workers with …

This paper used microdata from the 2013–2015 American Community Survey to examine
differences in federal government, state and local government, private sector, and self …

Older workers who develop significant limitations in health or functioning face declines in
income and consumption and an increased likelihood of poverty in the years prior to …

BACKGROUND: Existing survey and administrative data provide little information on why
individuals with disabilities have had persistently low employment rates and why some …