Richard V. Burkhauser is Co-Principal Investigator on the Department of Education RRT Center for Economic Research on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities as well as the RRT Center on Disability Demographics and Statistics.

With research funding from the Social Security Administration and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Richard V. Burkhauser is currently focusing on issues related to better measuring the employment and economic well-being of the working-age population with disabilities both in the United States and in European Union countries, as well as estimating the impact of greater access to health insurance to their employment. He is also working on other health and disability issues, including evaluating the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 on employer-provided health care benefits, and on economic inequality.

• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Andrew J. Houtenville. Forthcoming. "Employment Among Working-Age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Can Tell Us." In Edna Mora Szymanski and Randall M. Parker (eds.), Work and Disability: Issues and Strategies for Career Development and Job Placement (3rd ed.) Austin, TX: Pro-Ed, Inc.
• Sabia, Joseph J. and Richard V. Burkhauser. Forthcoming. "Minimum Wages and Poverty: Will a $9.50 Federal Minimum Wage Really Help the Working Poor?" Southern Economic Journal.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Kenneth A. Couch. "Are the Inequality and Mobility Trends of the United States in the European Union's Future?" United in Diversity, Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (eds.) Oxford University Press. (2010) pp. 280-307.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. "Deconstructing European Poverty Measures: What Relative and Absolute Scales Measure." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 28 (4) (Fall, 2009): 715-724.
• Burkhauser, Richard V., Shuaizhang Feng, and Stephen Jenkins. "Using a P90/P10 Ratio to Measure Inequality Trends with the Public Use Current Population Survey: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults." The Review of Income and Wealth, 55 (1) (March 2009): 166-185.
• Burkhauser, Richard V., John Cawley, and Maximilian D. Schmeiser. "The Timing of the Rise in U.S. Obesity Varies With Measure of Fatness." Economics and Human Biology, 7 (2009): 307-318.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and John Cawley. "Adding Biomeasures Relating to Fatness and Obesity to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics." Biodemography and Social Biology, 55: 2, 118 - 139.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Jeff Larrimore. "Using Internal CPS Data to Reevaluate Trends in Labor-Earnings Gaps."  Monthly Labor Review, (August 2009): 3-18.
• Burkhauser, Richard V., Alan Gustman, John Laitner, Olivia Mitchell, and Amanda Sonnega.  "Social Security Research at the Michigan Retirement Research Center." Social Security Bulletin 69, No. 4 (2009): 51-64.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Jeff Larrimore. "Trends in the Relative Household Income of Working-Age Men With Work Limitations: Correcting the Record Using Internal Current Population Survey Data." Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 20 (3) (December 2009): 162-169.
• Stapleton, David C., Richard V. Burkhauser, Peiyun She, Robert R. Weathers II, and Gina A. Livermore. "Income Security for Workers: A Stressed Support System in Need of Innovation." Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 19, (4) (March 2009): 204-220.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Kenneth A. Couch. "Intragenerational Inequality and Intertemporal Mobility."  Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, and Timothy Smeeding (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Income Inequality, Oxford University Press, (2009) pp. 522-548.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Ludmila Rovba. "Institutional Responses to Structural Lag: The Changing Patterns of Work at Older Ages." Sara J. Czaja and Joseph Sharit (eds.) Aging and Work. John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, MD. (2009) pp. 9-34.
• Burkhauser, Richard V., Ludmila Rovba, and Robert Weathers II. "Household Income." In Andrew J. Houtenville, David C. Stapleton, Robert R. Weathers II, and Richard V. Burkhauser (eds.) Counting Working-age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. UpJohn Institute for Employment Research, (2009) pp. 143-190.
• Burkhauser, Richard V., Ludmila Rovba, and Andrew J. Houtenville. "Poverty." In Andrew J. Houtenville, David C. Stapleton, Robert R. Weathers II, and Richard V. Burkhauser (eds.) Counting Working-age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. UpJohn Institute for Employment Research, (2009), pp. 191-224.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and John Cawley. "Beyond BMI: The Value of More Accurate Measures of Fatness and Obesity in Social Science Research."  Journal of Health Economics, 27 (2) (March 2008): 519-529.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. Shuaizhang Feng, Jeff Larrimore and Laura Zayatz. "Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)." Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 33 (2-3) (2008): 89-128.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Kosali I. Simon. "Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?" Risk Management and Insurance Review, 11 (1) (2008): 75-102.
• Burkhauser, Richard V., Takashi Oshio, and Ludmila Rovba. "How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed Over the 1990's Business Cycle: A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan." Journal of Income Distribution, 17 (1) (March, 2008): 87-109.
• Feng, Shuaizhang and Richard V. Burkhauser. "Generalized Percentile Ratios as Robust Measures of Labor Earnings Inequality." International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, 1 (2) (2008): 117-125.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. "Creating an EU Flexicurity System: An American Perspective." CESifo Dice Report, Journal of Institutional Comparisons, 6 (4) (2008): 36-40.

Books

• Houtenville, Andrew J., David C. Stapleton, Robert R. Weathers II, Richard V. Burkhauser. Counting Working-age People with Disabilities: What Current Data Tell Us and Options for Improvement. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. UpJohn Institute for Employment Research, (2009)

Government Publications

• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Jeff Larrimore. "Better Estimates of Income and its Distribution in the Public-Use March Current Population Survey." 2008 Research Report: Center for Economic Studies and Research Data Centers, US Census Bureau, USGPO, Washington, DC.
• Burkhauser, Richard V. and Joseph J. Sabia. “Do Minimum Wage Increases Reduce Poverty? An American Perspective” Australian Fair Pay Commission. (2008)