Disability Implications of an Aging Workforce
This research is looking to identify actions that can be undertaken to increase the employment of mature workers with disabilities. Research will identify what is currently known about the impact of increasing incidences of disability in the labor supply on the policies and practices of the U.S. public workforce system. Through conversations with noted scholars, business leaders, and national experts in the area of disability and aging, the NTAR Leadership Center will look to identify how best the workforce system can respond to and serve increasing numbers of mature workers with disabilities with the goal of developing a set of actionable policy, research, and technical assistance recommendations.
Products:
Roundtable Proceedings
Impact of Federal Policies for Responding to an Aging Workforce
Employer Strategies for Responding to an Aging Workforce
The Public Workforce System: Serving Older Job Seekers and the Disability Implications of an Aging Workforce
Materials from The Aging Workforce: The Role of Medical Professionals in Helping Older Workers and Workers with Disabilities to Stay at Work or Return to Work and Remain Employed
The Aging Workforce: The Role of Medical Professionals in Helping Older Workers and Workers with Disabilities to Stay at Work or Return to Work and Remain Employed – Pre-Session Brief – Available in formatted PDF and accessible PDF
Preparing the Front Line of Medicine to Prevent Needless Work Disability: Private and Public Sector Initiatives – Available in Microsoft PowerPoint and Rich Text Format
Opportunities for Change: The Role of Medical Professionals in Encouraging Older Workers and People with Disabilities to Stay At or Return to Work – Available in Microsoft PowerPoint and Rich Text Format
Doctors, Patients, and Disability – Available in Microsoft PowerPoint and Rich Text Format
Medical Aspects of Disability – Available in Microsoft PowerPoint and Rich Text Format
Workability in the Netherlands: Towards a Longer Worklife – Available in Microsoft PowerPoint and Rich Text Format
Long-Term Unemployed Workers with Disabilities
This research is part of an ongoing analysis being conducted by the NTAR Leadership Center of Unemployment Insurance recipients and the prevalence of a self-reported disability. Center research is focused on learning more about the characteristics of the current dislocated worker population and, in particular, those long-term unemployed individuals who are unable to find employment in under 26 weeks. In addition, the Center is gathering data on promising reemployment practices for long-term unemployed workers with disabilities taking place today in states and local areas The research findings will be disseminated and form the basis of a technical assistance and knowledge exchange strategy for states looking to improve their reemployment efforts.