More than Just Lower Wages: Intrinsic Job Quality for College Graduates with Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Henly, Megan; Brucker, Debra L.
Titel	More than Just Lower Wages: Intrinsic Job Quality for College Graduates with Disabilities
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 33 (2020) 5-6, S.410-424 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Henly, Megan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2020.1842865
Schlagwörter	Salary Wage Differentials; Job Satisfaction; College Graduates; Educational Attainment; Disabilities; Employee Attitudes; Adults; Employment Level; Responsibility; Quality of Working Life; Fringe Benefits; Professional Autonomy; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Value Judgment; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Handicap; Behinderung; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Beschäftigungsgrad; Verantwortungsübernahme; Zuständigkeit; Arbeitsqualität; Sozialabgaben; Berufsfreiheit; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Werturteil; Korrelation
Abstract	Americans with a disability are substantially less likely to be employed than those without a disability. Among those with a disability who are employed, additional layers of inequality have been established, including wage differences and access to benefits. Education is generally viewed as a pathway to professional work with good wages, benefits, and work conditions. In this paper, we utilise data from the 2017 National Survey of College Graduates, a nationally-representative sample of college graduates in the United States, to examine job quality between workers with and without a disability (n = 64,998 between ages 20-64). In addition to economic characteristics where we observe a median wage gap of $6,400 USD by disability status among full-time workers, this paper examines intrinsic qualities of work: autonomy, powerfulness, self-fulfilment, and meaningfulness of work. While college graduates generally rank high on intrinsic work quality (75% or more possess each of these qualities regardless of disability), on three of these four measures, full-time workers with a college degree and a disability scored significantly lower than their counterparts with no disability. We also consider individual-level preferences for job attributes and, after controlling for demographic characteristics, found that differences in intrinsic job quality by disability status remain. (As Provided).
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