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Title: Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities
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Mann, David R. Wittenburg, David C. |
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Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, April 2014. Also: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/~/media/publications/pdfs/disability/explaining_differentials_wp.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Keyword(s): Disability; Employment; Labor Force Participation; Wage Gap; Wages; Wages, Reservation Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to estimate and decompose the employment and offered wages of young adults with and without disabilities. Those with functional limitations that are severe or mental have the lowest relative employment rates and wage offers. The employment rate gaps between the “no limitations” group and the “severe limitations” and “mental limitations” groups are 20.0 and 15.0 percentage points, respectively. These large gaps in employment provide quantitative evidence that many young adults with disabilities decide not to enter the labor force because they receive wage offers that are below their reservation wage. The wage offer differential between those without limitations and those with severe limitations or mental limitations are 10.9 and 52.1 percentage points, respectively. We attribute most of the employment rate gaps to observed factors, whereas most of the wage offer gaps are the result of unobserved factors. Removing the proportion of the wage offer gap attributable to unexplained differences increases the employment rate among those with mental functional limitations by 1.4 percent. |
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Mann, David R. and David C. Wittenburg. "Explaining Differentials in Employment and Wages Between Young Adults with and Without Disabilities." Working Paper, Mathematica Policy Research, April 2014. |