Analytic labor force participation models which exclude information on worker health care lack explanatory power. If costs of disability can be separated through better information into costs reducible through delivery of health care, and costs more appropriately dealt with through labor market policies, the models will be improved. (KP)

The model describes the demand and supply of low-skill labor (private household workers, other service workers, and nonfarm laborers) by State, based on the March 1970 Current Population Survey for 43 States and groups of States by a simultaneous-equations method. (Author/EA)