Abstract
Various explanations have been offered to account for persistent labour market inequalities among people with disabilities, ranging from merit and personal responsibility to human capital, to employer attitudes. With a few exceptions, far less direct information is known about how discriminatory attitudes affect disabled job seekers. This talk presents findings from a Canadian audit study of disability labour market outcomes where matched paired résumés were sent to real active jobs in both Toronto and Edmonton. Fake job seekers were matched on all characteristics but where one job seeker signalled disability and the other did not. 1,390 applicants were sent in response to ads for both administrative and labourer job vacancies reflecting 1,032 companies. While overall, there were small differences in the chances of a disabled job seeker receiving a rejection, requests for more information, or an interview compared to similarly situated non-disabled job seekers, the effects were considerably more noticeable among labourer jobs regardless of whether the applicant signalled a physical or cognitive disability. Employers are considering both disability and job type when assessing applicant abilities, suggesting that statistical discrimination models are more likely explaining these unequal outcomes than taste-based explanations.
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GENPOP has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 865356). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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Nicola Barban