revised version published as 'Disability, gender, and the British labour market ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58 (3), 407-449
Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market
outcomes by gender. Our results indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of
employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years of operation of the Disability
Discrimination Act. Significant heterogeneity within the disabled group is identified: those
suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions
suggest the ‘penalty’ for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and
Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment effects associated with wage
discrimination against the disabled are very small.
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