THE DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT PUZZLE A FIELD EXPERIMENT ON EMPLOYER HIRING BEHAVIOR

• Published in: Industrial & labor relations review Vol. 71; no. 2; pp. 329 - 364
• Main Authors: AMERI, MASON, SCHUR, LISA, ADYA, MEERA, BENTLEY, F. SCOTT, MCKAY, PATRICK, KRUSE, DOUGLAS
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications, Inc 01.03.2018; SAGE Publications; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Americans with Disabilities Act 1990-US; Asperger's syndrome; Disability; Discrimination; Employment; Employment discrimination; Employment opportunities; Hiring; Injuries; Job applicants; Job opportunities; Labor relations; Law; People with disabilities; Physical disabilities; Productivity; Spinal cord; Spinal cord injuries; job search; discrimination; field experiment; labor and employment law; disability

The authors investigate potential discrimination against people with disabilities through a field experiment that sent job applications to 6,016 accounting positions for which the applicants’ disabilities are unlikely to affect productivity. One-third of the cover letters disclosed that the applican...