Why Do Workers with Disabilities Earn Less? Occupational Job Requirements and Disability Discrimination

• Published in: British journal of industrial relations Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 798 - 834
• Main Authors: Kruse, Douglas, Schur, Lisa, Rogers, Sean, Ameri, Mason
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2018
• Subjects: Cognition; Deafness; Disability; Discrimination; Employment discrimination; Hearing; Income inequality; Job requirements; Labor relations; Mobility; People with disabilities; Productivity; Wage differential; Workers; Workers with disabilities

We analyse competing explanations for the lower pay of employees with disabilities, using 2008–2014 data from the American Community Survey matched to O*Net data on occupational job requirements. The results indicate that only part of the disability pay gap is due to productivity‐related job require...