Description

The Gamboa Gibson Work life Tables provide a valuable resource for trial attorneys. If your client becomes disabled, how does that disability translate into real dollars? How much would he expect to lose over the remainder of his working life? This book provides the detail you need, calculated and presented by Dr. A. M. Gamboa, Jr., a vocational counselor, researcher, and former professor at the University of Louisville, and David S. Gibson, a certified rehabilitation counselor with degrees in business administration and rehabilitation counseling.

Twenty years after the initial publication, the Gamboa Gibson Worklife Tables remain the only source that provides worklife expectancy statistics adjusted for disability as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. While you might easily calculate a loss in annual earnings, these tables address the number of years that a person is expected to be alive and actively employed in the future.

About the Authors
Dr. A. M. Gamboa, Jr. holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in vocational counseling. He has completed postdoctoral study in vocational rehabilitation and the economics of disability at the University of Cincinnati, University of Louisville, Purdue University, and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He holds also an MBA from the University of Chicago.

David S. Gibson has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in rehabilitation (MRC) from the University of Kentucky.

Together, the authors are the chief executive officer and the president of Vocational Economics, Inc., a forensic vocational economic consulting firm.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

Part I: Research, Methods, and Support

1. Worklife Expectancy Models
2. Data Sources
3. Analysis of Results
4. Historical Employment Rates
5. Use and Misuse of the Tables
6. Worklife Probability Application
7. Challenge Issues
8. Conclusion

Part II: The Tables

9. About the Tables

Part III: Appendices

Appendix A: Computation
Appendix B: Life Tables
Appendix C: CPS Employment Rates
Appendix D: ACS Employment Rates
Appendix E: Replicating the Gamboa Gibson Worklife Tables

Reviews

1. We know that individuals with physical and/or cognitive disabilities and who are employed full time have a shorter work life expectancy and earn less money than those with no disabilities. Nevertheless, many attorneys representing individuals, with permanent physical and/or cognitive disabilities and who are employed full time, fail to assert claims for economic damages when representing these individuals. Relying upon data gathered from U.S. Department, Bureau of Census’s American Community Survey, the authors demonstrate that regardless of educational attainment, age, or gender, people with physical and/or cognitive disabilities, and who are employed full time work less and earn less than their counterparts who are uninjured. The Gamboa Gibson Worklife Tables authored by Anthony M. Gamboa, Jr., Ph.D., MBA, and David S. Gibson, MBA, CPA, CRC document and substantiate why such economic claims should be brought. For attorneys representing persons with permanent physical and/or cognitive disabilities this book is a must.
   —Bruce H. Stern, braininjuryblog.com