Interpreting wage gaps of disabled men: the roles of productivity and of discrimination

TY - JOUR

T1 - Interpreting wage gaps of disabled men

T2 - the roles of productivity and of discrimination

AU - Longhi, Simonetta

AU - Nicoletti, Cheti

AU - Platt, Lucinda

PY - 2012/1/1

Y1 - 2012/1/1

N2 - Using the UK Labour Force Survey, we study wage gaps for disabled men after the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act. We estimate wage gaps at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution and decompose them into a part explained by differences in workers’ and job characteristics, a part that can be ascribed to health-related reduced productivity, and a residual part. The large original wage gaps reduce substantially when we control for differences in education and occupation, although significant residuals remain. However, when we isolate productivity differences between disabled and nondisabled workers, the residual wage gap becomes insignificant in most cases.

AB - Using the UK Labour Force Survey, we study wage gaps for disabled men after the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act. We estimate wage gaps at the mean and at different quantiles of the wage distribution and decompose them into a part explained by differences in workers’ and job characteristics, a part that can be ascribed to health-related reduced productivity, and a residual part. The large original wage gaps reduce substantially when we control for differences in education and occupation, although significant residuals remain. However, when we isolate productivity differences between disabled and nondisabled workers, the residual wage gap becomes insignificant in most cases.

KW - Discrimination

KW - Wage gap

KW - Disability

KW - quantile regression

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856849335&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4284/0038-4038-78.3.931

DO - 10.4284/0038-4038-78.3.931

M3 - Article

SN - 0038-4038

VL - 78

SP - 931

JO - Southern Economic Journal

JF - Southern Economic Journal

IS - 3

ER -