Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-255) and index.
Contents:
The disability category and the congressional ideal -- The judicial gloss -- The congressional response -- The official notice/administrative notice doctrine -- Vocational expert evidence and the vocational expert program -- "Gridding" the labor market work adjustment assessment -- Gaps in the grid : the grid's adjudicative framework and occupational base erosion approach for work adjustment assessments in grid exception cases -- The adjudicative use of the official notice/administrative notice doctrine in grid exception cases -- The dictionary of occupational titles in work adjustment assessments -- Progress toward a new occupational taxonomy for work adjustment assessments -- Introduction to the debate over alternatives to the current disability standard and program -- Amendments to simplify work adjustment assessments by restricting eligibility : the elimination of labor market and vocational factors -- The twenty-first century labor market for low-skill work -- The disability benefits reform debate -- Amendments to simplify work adjustment assessments by expanding eligibility : a European style occupational standard -- Proposals to impose a "welfare reform" mandatory work incentives model.
Summary:
"The book is about the law, history, public policy, administrative agency processes, and empirical and American labor market realities, around the elusive Social Security Act disability programs' requirements for determining when persons can make adjustments to jobs which exist in significant numbers in the economy"-- Provided by publisher.
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