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Title: Why Do Negative Employment Outcomes for Workers with Disabilities Persist?: Investigating the Effects of Human Capital, Social Capital, and Discrimination

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: Little is known about why poor job outcomes for workers with disabilities (WD) persist. Hence, the aim of this study was to combine and extend human capital, social capital, and multiple jeopardy advantage theories to develop and test a comprehensive model of the processes explaining job outcomes for WD. Data from the 2010 US National Health Interview Survey (N=3,887) and O*Net were analyzed to investigate the extent to which disability status (i.e., WD with work limitations, WD with no work limitations, or non-disabled workers [NDW]) relates to four types of work outcomes (i.e., annual compensation, employment status, job insecurity, and workplace harassment) indirectly through human and social capital resources and whether there are gender or racial/ethnic differences in these relationships. Results revealed that WD received lower returns than NDW on comparable levels of career-related capital resources, especially health-related human capital and, to a lesser extent, social capital and education- and training-related human capital. Thus, evidence was supportive of discrimination, as equivalent social and productivity-related characteristics and qualifications yielded less favorable job outcomes for WD than for . . .

Url: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1839/

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Authors: Maculaitis, Martine

Institution: Psychology

Department: Psychology

Advisor: Karen Lyness

Degree: PhD

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Data Collections: IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS

Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems

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