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Can you source your claim? I am genuinely interested in reading it.

• esyir 7y ago
  As with most research, take multiple sources. A quick survey showed this (admittedly rather old paper), but it does show the immediate effect: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/146368.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/146368.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_... >On average over the post-ADA period, employment of men with disabilities was 7.2 percentage points lower than before the act was passed. In addition, wages of disabled men did not change with the passage of the ADA. http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/Jolls_497.pdf http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/J... This one is long, and they do mention some positive impact on education later. Didn't read that far though. >while relative disabled employment declined significantly just after the ADA’s enactment in states in which these provisions were a substantial innovation relative to the pre-ADA state-level employment discrimination regime, relative disabled employment was stable in states with ADA-like employment discrimination regimes in place prior to the ADA’s enactment Non-exhaustive search, but the data seems to indicate that ADA reduced employment for the disabled shortly after inception. I'm not certain on the longer term effects (those are also much more annoying to model here).
  • foldr 7y ago
    The negative effects on employment were a blip: https://www.nber.org/digest/nov04/w10528.html https://www.nber.org/digest/nov04/w10528.html
    • JoeAltmaier 7y ago
      It's great to think that the ADA damage was short-lived. But rather than a 'blip', it lasted 'through the 1990s' by that reference (thanks!) which cut out the prime earning years of a whole generation of disabled people. Again, Law of Unintended Consequences.