The impact of work-limiting disabilities on earnings and income mobility

Jolly, Nicholas A.

doi:10.1080/00036846.2013.818212

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“…Meyer and Mok (2019) identify work-limiting disability as one-time, temporary, chronic but not severe, and chronic and severe based on the number and severity of reports up to 10 years following the onset. Similar categorization has been used in earlier work to capture duration as a proxy for health condition severity (Charles, 2003;Jolly, 2013). These categories are more rigid than the constructed index, but continue to illuminate a similar story (see Appendix Table A2).…”

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“…With this model in mind, a health condition that limits parents' engagement in the labor market could be associated with less economic mobility in the next generation. The literature suggests that persons with work-limiting disabilities may experience marked economic disadvantages persisting years after the onset (Charles, 2003;Jolly, 2013;Meyer and Mok, 2019). For persons with chronic and severe work-limiting conditions, Meyer and Mok (2019) found a precipitous drop in employment, and estimated post-transfer income around 28 percent lower 10 years after work-limitation onset relative to experiences more than five years preceding the onset.…”

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Work‐Limiting Disability and Intergenerational Economic Mobility

Jajtner¹

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective To examine whether work‐limiting disability may modify intergenerational economic mobility in the United States. Methods Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, common metrics of intergenerational mobility are estimated by parent work‐limiting disability. These include rank slope coefficients capturing persistence of socioeconomic status and absolute upward economic mobility capturing expected child outcomes. Results Parent–child pairs with work‐limiting disability experience 5–12 percentiles lower absolute economic mobility at the 25th percentile of parent income. More severe and/or chronic conditions have larger disparities and higher parent income is associated with smaller disparities. Women may experience larger mobility differences, while non‐Hispanic black children may face a higher likelihood of parents experiencing work limitations. Conclusions Work‐limiting disability appears to modify children's economic opportunity. This contributes to the understanding of disparate access to opportunity in the United States while also identifying economic disadvantages associated with disability for subsequent generations.

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Work‐Limiting Disability and Intergenerational Economic Mobility

Jajtner¹

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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“…In examining the literature on late-life functional limitations and socioeconomic variables, we identified numerous studies showing a strong positive relationship between age and prevalence of late-life disability and a negative relationship between income and disability (Bjelland et al, 2010; Charles, 2003; Cotter & Lackman, 2010; Jolly, 2013; Mok, Meyer, Charles, & Achen, 2008; Walls & Dowler, 2015; Wolff, Starfield, & Anderson, 2002). We also found several studies demonstrating that women are more likely to be disabled than men in late life and, in some cases, at every age (Gill, Gahbauer, Lin, Han, & Allore, 2013; Hardy, Allore, Guo, & Gill, 2008), and another study indicating that minority status may be predictive of late-life disability (Melzer, Izmirlian, Leveille, & Guralnik, 2001).…”

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Functional Status and Adaptation: Measuring Activities of Daily Living and Device Use in the National Health and Aging Trends Study

Frochen

Mehdizadeh

2017

J Aging Health

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“…A lower wage may entail a reduced capacity to accumulate wealth and maintain financial stability. Workers navigating the low wage labor market are particularly vulnerable as lower wages entrap them in a cycle of poverty ( Jolly, 2013 ).…”

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“…Longitudinal surveys, while more expensive, would provide richer information about the causal effects of disability over time. For example, Jolly (2013) used longitudinal data to show that having a disability increased workers' financial precarity by increasing the probability of downward mobility in earnings, the likelihood of being at the lower end of the income distribution, and the risk of poverty. More detailed measures of disability that distinguish varying levels of impairment and include people experiencing transitory disability as well as long-term disability would also enhance our understanding of the commutes of workers with disabilities ( Myers et al, 2020 ).…”

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Disability, wages, and commuting in New York

Wong

McLafferty

Planey

et al. 2020

Journal of Transport Geography

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In the U.S., substantial employment and wage gaps persist between workers with and without disabilities. A lack of accessible transportation is often cited as a barrier to employment in higher wage jobs for people with disabilities, but little is known about the intraurban commuting patterns of employed people with disabilities in relation to their wage earnings. Our study compares wages and commute times between workers with and without disabilities in the New York metropolitan region and identifies the intraurban zones where residents experience higher inequities in wage earnings and commute times. We obtained our data from the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) of the American Community Survey (ACS) for the 2008–2012 time period. We used linear mixed-effects models and generated separate models with log hourly wage or one-way commute time as the dependent variable. We find significant differences in wages and commute times between workers with and without disabilities at the scale of the metropolitan region as well as by intraurban zone. At the metropolitan scale, disabled workers earn 16.6% less and commute one minute longer on average than non-disabled workers. High commute and wage inequalities converge in the center, where workers with disabilities are more likely to use public transit, earn 17.1% less, and travel nearly four minutes longer on average than workers without disabilities. These results suggest that transport options are less accessible and slower for disabled workers than they are for non-disabled workers. Our findings indicate a need for more accessible and quicker forms of transportation in the center along with an increased availability of centrally located and affordable housing to reduce the disability gap in wages and commute times. We also find that workers with disabilities generally seek higher wages in exchange for longer commute times, but the results differ by race/ethnicity and gender. Compared to white men, minority workers earn much less, and white and Hispanic women have significantly shorter commute times. Our findings offer new geographic insights on how having a disability can influence wage earnings and commute times for workers in different intraurban zones in the New York metropolitan region.

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The impact of work-limiting disabilities on earnings and income mobility

Cited by 15 publications

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Work‐Limiting Disability and Intergenerational Economic Mobility

Work‐Limiting Disability and Intergenerational Economic Mobility

Functional Status and Adaptation: Measuring Activities of Daily Living and Device Use in the National Health and Aging Trends Study

Disability, wages, and commuting in New York

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