A benefit-cost analysis of supported employment in Illinois: The first 2 years

Can Community-Based High School Transition Programs Improve the Cost-Efficiency of Supported Employment?

“…Although this conclusion is similar to finding of Conley et al (1989), McCaughrin et al (1991, and Rusch et al (1993), it is counter to those reached by other researchers who determined that supported employment was cost-efficient from the taxpayers' perspective Zivolich et al, 1997). The reasons for these contradictory findings most likely involve variations in the accounting methodology used.…”

The national cost-efficiency of supported employees with intellectual disabilities: The worker’s perspective

“…Stated a different way, Hill et al concluded that for every dollar individuals with disabilities gave up as a result of becoming supported employees, they gained $1.97 in fringe benefits and wages earned. As many as a dozen studies have arrived at similar conclusions [8,10,11,19,26,29].…”

“…Indeed, the majority of the available literature is derived from data collected in either Illinois [8,10,19,20,26,29] or Virginia [12,13,31]. Numerous studies have identified variations in employment outcomes between states [2,18,25].…”

The national costs of supported employment to Vocational Rehabilitation: 2002 to 2006

“…Nearly all of the available research has explored the costs of supported employment in only one state or a handful of adult service agency. For instance, Wehman et al have explored the costs of supported employment in Virginia [20][21][22]39], Rusch et al in Illinois [18,30,31,35], Nobel et al in New York [32], Lewis et al in Minnesota [28], Cimera in Wisconsin [11][12][13] and so forth. Only Kregel, Wehman, and Banks [23] explored the costs of supported employment throughout multiple (i.e., 8) states.…”

“…Only a few had samples larger than 1,000 (cf. [24,31,32,38]). Moreover, the samples used by previous studies have focused mainly on individuals with mental retardation (cf.…”