Job Mobility among Workers with Disabilities
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Using data from the 1990 Survey of Income and Program Participation, this paper examines both the mobility patterns of workers with disabilities and the wage effects of job changes by observing workers’ within-firm and across-firm job changes over a 20-month period. There is no difference in the probability of internal (within-firm) job changes between workers with and without disabilities. Workers with disabilities, however, are more likely to make external job changes (leave their employer) than are workers without disabilities. Examining the reasons for job changes, we find that disabled workers are more likely to experience an involuntary job change than nondisabled workers. The overall wage growth for workers with disabilities is lower than that for nondisabled workers over the 20-month period, but there is little or no evidence that the wage changes associated with a job change are different for workers with disabilities. These findings are consistent with theories that disabled workers change jobs more frequently than nondisabled workers because of a greater incidence of job mismatch among workers with disabilities, or because of discrimination against disabled workers in job terminations.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999