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Labour market disadvantage amongst disabled people
— a longitudinal perspective | | Author(s) | John Rigg |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2005 |
| Pages | 35 pp (CASEpaper 103) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Employment ; Remuneration ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | Considerable cross-sectional evidence has highlighted the lower employment rates and earnings for disabled people in Britain. This study uses data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to examine disabled people's labour market progression in Britain along several dimensions: growth; low pay transition probabilities; changes in labour market participation; the rate of training; and the rate of upward occupational mobility. The analysis also explores the extent of heterogeneity in the labour market progression of disabled people with respect to differences in age, education, occupation and disability severity. The evidence indicates that the earnings trajectories of disabled people lag behind those for non-disabled people, especially for men. The median annual change in earnings is 1.4% lower for disabled men and 0.6% lower for disabled women, compared to non-disabled men and women respectively. Moreover, disabled people are approximately three times more likely to exit work than their non-disabled counterparts, a difference that increases markedly for more severely disabled people. The evidence highlights the need for policy to tackle the barriers that disabled people face in the workplace, not merely in access to jobs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060228213 B |
| Classmark | BN: WJ: WL: 3J |
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