Health and youth employment

Abstract

The employment of 6.4 % of United States teenagers and young adults is limited by their health. Note: Approximately 11.5 million youths were not enrolled in school during 1979; rc = reference category; -means variable not used in equation. =First partial derivative, evaluated at the mean, of the likelihood function maximized to estimate logistic regression coefficients. Equal to J J where i is the estimate of intercept; Bj the estimate ofkgistic coefficient for variable j; Bj, the estimate of logistic coefficient for characteristic of interest, and X j the estimate of population mean for variable j.

Aggregate Economic Losses from Disability in the United States: A Preliminary Assay

“…Estimated disability losses attributable to primary and secondary reductions in market time were prepared by various means, generally by applying expected reductions in annual hours o f work by the disabled and members o f their households in each sex/age group to age-and sex-specific expected wage rates. Expected reductions o f hours were gleaned from a reasonable detailed review o f the multivariate results in published econometric studies on the relation between poor health and labor supply as well as recent descriptive studies on informal care givers: among others, studies by Berger (1982), Berger and Fleisher(1984), Chirikos and Nestel (1981), Feller (1983, Inman (1987), Lambrinos (1981), Lui, Manton, and Lui (1985), Luft (1975), Parsons (1977), Passmore et al (1983), Salkever (1982aSalkever ( , 1982bSalkever ( , 1984, Scheffler and Iden (1974), and Stone, Cafferata, and Sangl (1986) were consulted for these purposes. Sex-and agespecific expected wage rates for valuing lost market time were com (Chirikos and Nestel 1985).…”

Health in Early Adolescence and Paid Employment

“…Surprisingly little attention has been paid to whether and how these relationships develop earlier in the life course. A lone exception is Passmore et al's (1983) analysis of 16 to 21 year-olds in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort in which they find that sample members with self-reported health limitations were less likely to be employed, and if they were employed, worked fewer hours than their peers who reported no health limitations. Though restricted in their measures of specific conditions, they were able to discern that chronic diseases were more of an impediment to employment than acute conditions such as accidents and injuries.…”