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May 2003

Disability and the characteristics of employment

Edward H. Yelin, Laura Trupin

An analysis of the California Work and Health Survey indicates that persons with disabilities have lower employment rates and less secure kinds of employment than those without disabilities; once on the job, however, the two groups do not differ fundamentally in the nature of their working conditions.

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