Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, Vol 51, Issue 2 S53-S60, Copyright © 1996 by The Gerontological Society of America
Worker adaptation and employer accommodation following the onset of a health impairment
MC Daly and J Bound
Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.
The responses of workers and their employers to the onset of work- limiting
health impairments were investigated using data from the new Health and
Retirement Study. The results indicate that many workers who suffer from
health limitations are directly accommodated by their employers, and that
those those who do not receive direct accommodation frequently adapt to
their limitations by altering their job demands or by changing jobs. These
findings point to the potential for adjustments on both sides of the
market: by employers, in the form of job accommodation, and by employees,
in the form of job change.
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