How has COVID-19 impacted disability employment?

ABSTRACT:

Background

While the COVID-19 public health emergency has had disastrous health impacts for people with disabilities, it remains unclear what impact the associated economic recession and subsequent recovery have had on disability employment.

Objective

We evaluated employment trends for people with and without disabilities over the course of the COVID-19 recession and subsequent economic recovery, both overall and by occupational category (essential, non-essential, teleworkable, non-teleworkable, frontline, non-frontline).

Methods

We made use of data from the nationally representative Current Population Survey. Linear probability models were used to estimate percent changes in employment-to-population ratios and identify differences between disabled and non-disabled em

SUBMITTER: Ne'eman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9747687 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature