The Disability Employment Puzzle: A Field Experiment on Employer Hiring Behavior

• Published in: NBER Working Paper Series p. 21560
• Main Authors: Ameri, Mason, Schur, Lisa, Adya, Meera, Bentley, Scott, McKay, Patrick, Kruse, Douglas
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc 01.09.2015
• Subjects: Accounting; Americans with Disabilities Act 1990-US; Analysis; Disability; Disability discrimination; Economic theory; Employers; Employment; Experiments; Hiring; Labor market; Labor relations; Organizational behavior; People with disabilities; Productivity; Spinal cord injuries; Studies; Wages & salaries; United States > US

Working Paper No. 21560 People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a contributing factor. Following the method of Bertrand and Mullainathan (2003), new evidence is presented from a field experiment that sent applications in respo...