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Despite major advances in medication and treatment, persons with serious mental illness have substantially worse employment outcomes than other disadvantaged groups. This book explains the factors that impact the employment of those with mental illnesses and provides guidance for overcoming obstacles, from both employer and employee perspectives.

The likelihood of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) eliminating employer discrimination & increasing the relative wages & employment rates of persons with disabilities is examined. The ADA assumes that the severe disadvantage that disabled persons experience in the labor market stems largely from employer discrimination; however, discrimination may result from a a variety of sources: (1) prejudice; (2) information problems in the labor market; & (3) firms' exploitation of minority workers. Because the ADA does not target subgroups in the disabled population that may be most subject to discrimination, it will likely not succeed in significantly reducing their labor market disadvantages. Adapted from the source document.

One of the main objectives of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is to increase the relative wages and employment rates of persons with disabilities by eliminating employer discrimination. The act implicitly assumes that employer discrimination is the main cause of disabled persons' disadvantages in the labor market, ignoring important differences between this minority group and the groups protected by civil rights legislation in the past. Neither does the law address the underlying sources of employer discrimination against persons with disabilities. Research demonstrates that prejudice is one important source of such discrimination but not the only source. Other factors—namely, informational problems and productivity differentials—also contribute to differences in the employment and wages of disabled and nondisabled workers. Because the employment provisions of the ADA do not take account of these facts, the act provides insufficient assistance to persons with disabilities subject to the most discrimination in the labor market and is unlikely to increase substantially the employment rates of this group.