@inbook{b346e00ed45d4818a318492f145955bf,
title = "Within group {"}structural{"} tests of labor-market discrimination A study of persons with serious disabilities",
abstract = "Labor-market discrimination measures are usually derived from between-group comparisons of market outcomes for favored versus disfavored groups, controlling for productivity-related individual characteristics. When the disfavored group is heterogeneous, one can relate variations in discrimination intensity to market outcomes within the disfavored group. We use this approach to test for employment and wage discrimination against persons with various types of disabilities. Measures of 'social distance{"} and employer judgments of {"}employability{"} are controls for the intensity of discrimination. In a national sample of adults with serious disabilities, employment discrimination effects are in the {"}wrong{"} direction, however, and wage effects are unstable. Thus, variability in labor market outcomes among different types of disabilities is not explained well by variations in discrimination intensity correlated with social distance and employer attitudes. We conjecture that differences in available support services by type of disability may help to explain this variability.",
author = "Salkever, {David S.} and Domino, {Marisa Elena}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this research provided by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health to the Johns Hopkins-Maryland Center for Research on Services for Severe Mental Illness, and by the U.S. Center for Disease Control to the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy. We also thank James Collins for his assistance in preparing the manuscript. We are grateful to the Rehabilitation Services Administration, Temple University, and the National Association of Developmental Disability Councils for providing data used in this work. All errors and omissions are the responsibility of the authors.",
year = "2000",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "0762305290",
series = "Research in Human Capital and Development",
publisher = "JAI Press",
pages = "33--50",
booktitle = "The Economics of Disability",
address = "United States",
}