Changes in Wage Discrimination against People with Disabilities: 1984-93

• DOI: 10.2307/3069673
• Publication Date: 2006-05-05T22:56:14Z
• Authors: Thomas DeLeire
• Keywords: 0502 economics and business; 05 social sciences; 8. Economic growth; 1. No poverty

A group of health-impaired workers who self-report in the Survey Income and Program Participation that their productivity is not affected by impairment used to separately measure effects discrimination from poor health on earnings 1984 1993. The results indicate that, 1984, only 3.7 percentage points gap due amount did decrease Although change over 1993 period, negative people with disabilities fell substantially.