Center for Women and Work’s Working Families Program conducts quality research and education programs on public and private workplace policies and practices that affect working women and families, particularly low-wage workers. 

Studies:

“Barriers or Opportunities?  The Causes of Contingent and Part-time Work Among People with Disabilities,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 42, No. 4, October 2003, pp. 589-622.  By Lisa Schur.

“Dead-end Jobs or a Path to Economic Well-being? The Consequences of Non-standard Work for People with Disabilities,” Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Vol. 20, December 2002, pp. 601-620.  By Lisa Schur.

Presentations:

“Supervisor and co-worker responses to disability accommodations.”  Presented at the American Psychological Association annual conference, August 2009.  By Lisa Schur, Meera Adya, and Douglas Kruse.

“Disability and Corporate Culture:  Case Study Evidence.”  Presented at the Labor and Employment Relations Association annual conference, January 2009.  By Lisa Schur, Meera Adya, Lisa Nishii, Susanne Bruyere, Douglas Kruse, and Peter Blanck.

Studies:

“Sidelined or Mainstreamed?  Political Participation and Attitudes of People with Disabilities in the United States.” Presented at the American Political Science Association  conference, August 2008, and updated October 2009.  By Lisa Schur and Meera Adya.

“Political Participation,” in Gary Albrecht, ed., Encyclopedia of Disability (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005).  By Lisa Schur.

Fact sheets and testimony:

 “Fact sheet:  Disability and Voter Turnout in the 2010 Elections,” by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, June 2011.

 “Fact sheet:  Disability and Voter Turnout in the 2008 Elections,” by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, July 2009.

“Projecting Potential Demand for Workers with Disabilities,” Monthly Labor Review, October 2010. By Douglas Kruse, Lisa Schur, and Mohammad Ali.

“Calibrating the Impact of the ADA’s Employment Provisions,” Stanford Law and Policy Review, Vol. 14.2, 2003, pp. 267-290. By Peter Blanck, Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, Susan Schwochau, and Chen Song.

Presentation:
“Disability and Employment: Building a Research Agenda,” Conference on Strengthening the Intersection of Demand- and Supply-Side Disability Employment Research, sponsored by U.S. Department of Labor and the Interagency Committee on Disability Research, Subcommittee on Employment, Washington, D.C., June 2008. By Douglas Kruse.

The Program for Disability Research conducts and coordinates research on the economic, social, and political inclusion of people with disabilities. We focus on two broad areas: employment and political participation of people with disabilities.

Our research has been sponsored by several federal agencies:  the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and the National Council on Disability. We have worked with several partners, including