Via Wolf Street:
I think Wolf may have a point in his evaluation. As an anecdote, I have a family member who has significant health issues. I don’t believe he could work if it weren’t for flexibility on the part of his employer to allow working from home. I think what is needed is some sort of regression analysis to parse out the contribution of various potential factors that could influence both disability claims and the numbers of people with disability who are employed. Also a caveat: nowadays I am cautious about trusting government data!
It seems there are several things going on here. As Wolf notes, technology and business practices, especially work-from-home, have made “disabled” folks more employable, and therefore less likely to qualify for disability payments. But it’s also true that a lot more people are considered “disabled,” which might be due to effects of the jabs. Any analysis also needs to look at age structure, and consider the different definitions. The comments on Wolf’s site note that getting approved for SSI is difficult, perhaps more difficult than in the past.
This is an important and interesting subject area. I’ve been wondering for some time how working age deaths and disability from the disease and the vaxs has affected some of these labor/employment stats. The devil is in the details, and most people don’t know where to begin an analysis.