abstract: 'Over one million Americans aged 15 years and older are deaf or hard of

  hearing. These individuals may face barriers to and within the labor

  market, leading to lower employment rates and reduced earnings compared

  with their counterparts without a hearing disability. Our study

  contributes to the sparse literature on the relationship between hearing

  disability and labor market outcomes by examining hearing earnings gaps,

  namely, earnings gaps between individuals who are deaf or hard of

  hearing and their counterparts without a hearing disability. Using a

  sample of 25- to 40-year-old full-time year-round workers from the 2011

  American Community Survey, we estimate separate earnings equations by

  hearing ability and gender using generalized estimating equations. For

  both men and women, Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions indicate that roughly

  40\% of the overall hearing earnings gap is attributable to differences

  in educational attainment, potential experience, race/ethnicity, and

  marital status. The remaining 60\% may reflect differences in

  communication skills and other unobservable characteristics,

  occupational segregation, labor market discrimination, and stigma.'
affiliation: 'Hiedemann, BG (Corresponding Author), Seattle Univ, Albers Sch Business
  \& Econ, Dept Econ, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 USA.

  Benito, Shandra G., Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA.

  Glassman, Thomas S.; Hiedemann, Bridget G., Seattle Univ, Seattle, WA 98122 USA.'
author: Benito, Shandra G. and Glassman, Thomas S. and Hiedemann, Bridget G.
author-email: bgh@seattleu.edu
author_list:
- family: Benito
  given: Shandra G.
- family: Glassman
  given: Thomas S.
- family: Hiedemann
  given: Bridget G.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/1044207316658752
eissn: 1538-4802
files: []
issn: 1044-2073
journal: JOURNAL OF DISABILITY POLICY STUDIES
keywords: 'accommodations; ADA; economics; social security; employment; labor;

  policy'
keywords-plus: SAMPLE SELECTION; EMPLOYMENT; ASSOCIATION; ADULTS; INCOME
language: English
month: DEC
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '27'
pages: 178-188
papis_id: def7ebd49d6b1f7f4d4133f4c2b3abcd
ref: Benito2016disabilitylabor
times-cited: '5'
title: 'Disability and Labor Market Earnings: Hearing Earnings Gaps in the United
  States'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000387695800006
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '10'
volume: '27'
web-of-science-categories: Rehabilitation
year: '2016'