Abstract
Effective 2001, California passed the Prudence Kay Poppink Act which broadened California's disability discrimination in employment laws to cover individuals with less severe impairments. This is an important legal change as individuals with less severe impairments are often ineligible for Social Security Disability Insurance and are often not covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, but this group may still face barriers to employment through discrimination or needing job accommodations. I estimate how the Prudence Kay Poppink Act affected the labor market outcomes for these newly-covered disabled workers using both difference-in-differences and difference-in-differences-in-differences regression analyses using data from the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement (a.k.a. the "March CPS"). The results show strong evidence of increased employment and weak evidence of increased earnings.
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