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| Title: | | Interpreting wage gaps of disabled men: The roles of productivity and discrimination  |
| Authors: | | Longhi, Simonetta Nicoletti, Cheti Platt, Lucinda |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ISER Working Paper Series 2010-19 |
| Abstract: | | 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 the part explained by differences in workers' and job characteristics, the part that can be ascribed to health-related reduced productivity, and a residual part which we can more confidently interpret as discrimination. For physically disabled workers, most of the wage gap can be attributed to differences in productivity, while for mentally disabled people we find evidence of wage discrimination. |
| Subjects: | | wage gap discrimination disability Oaxaca decomposition |
| JEL: | | J7 J14 J31 C21 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | ISER Working Paper Series, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex
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