Volume 29, Number 1 (Winter) 1994
Baldwin, Marjorie, and William G. Johnson. 1994. "Labor Market Discrimination Against Men with Disabilities." Journal of Human Resources 29(1):1-19.
The 1984 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation is used to estimate the extent of labor market discrimination against men with disabilities. men with disabilities are classified into a group with impairments that are subject to prejudice (handicapped) and a group with impairments that are less subject to prejudice (disabled). Very large differences in employment rates and hourly wages are found between handicapped and nondisabled men. The employment rates and hourly wages of disabled men are slightly lower than those of nondisabled men but substantially higher than those of handicapped men. Using data from the 1972 Social Security Survey of the Disabled as a benchmark, we find that wage differentials between nondisabled and both disabled and handicapped men increased between 1972 and 1984. The employment rate for handicapped men also increased but the 1984 rate was still substantially lower than the rates for nondisabled or disabled men.
Marjorie Baldwin is an assistant professor of economics at East Carolina University. William G. Johnson is a professor of health economics at the School of Health Administration and Policy and the Department of Economics, Arizona State University. This research was supported in part by grant #H133C80006 from the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The data can be obtained beginning in September 1994 through September 1997 from Marjorie Baldwin at the following address: Department of economics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-435.
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