Decomposing Recent Employment Gains Among Disabled Workers

Hsinyu (Samuel) Tseng and Douglas Webber

No 2025-095, Finance and Economics Discussion Series from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: We use the longitudinal component of the Current Population Survey to compare transition rates into and out of disability and employment prior to and after the onset of the pandemic. We find that one-third of the increased employment rate among disabled people is due to the excess incidence of disability seen following the pandemic, while the other two-thirds is attributable to higher participation among people whose disabilities were unrelated to the pandemic. Further, we find evidence that these increases are concentrated in occupations with higher rates of telework.

Keywords: Disability; Labor force; Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J14 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 p.
Date: 2025-10-15
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DOI: 10.17016/FEDS.2025.095

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