abstract: 'Earnings of people with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD)

  in a labor market can be a useful indicator of the quality of

  employment, economic mobility, and the quality of life of people with

  disabilities. To develop a more complete picture of employment outcomes

  for people with disabilities, weekly wage was examined applying quantile

  regression technique. Rehabilitation Services Administration Case

  Service Report (RSA-911) data from FY 2014 was used for both Ordinary

  Least Square (OLS) and quantile regression analyses. Quantile regression

  technique allows us to analyze a set of exploratory variables at

  different quantiles of the weekly wage distribution in comparison with

  OLS estimation. Results suggest that the income disparity is

  significant, particularly at more extreme ends of quantiles, which is

  the lower or higher weekly wage distribution. Findings indicated that

  males earned more than females, individuals with no significant

  disability earned more than individuals with the most significant

  disability, individuals whose primary source of financial support is

  public support or family/friends/ other support earned less of their own

  income, and people with cerebral palsy or epilepsy earned more, and

  people with multiple-disabilities earned less than people with IDD.

  Moreover, the results indicate that the quantile regression estimates of

  demographics, disability types, significant disability status, and

  primary sources of financial support show different patterns of changes

  and consistent upward or downward trends across quantiles of weekly wage

  distribution in comparison with the OLS estimates. This study provides

  additional insight into the importance of understanding earnings and the

  variability that may be able to be addressed by targeted approaches by

  rehabilitation professionals and policymakers.'
affiliation: 'Kang, Y (Corresponding Author), Univ Minnesota, RTC CL, 150 Pillsbury
  Dr SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.

  Kang, Youngsoon; Nye-Lengerman, Kelly M., Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455
  USA.

  Nord, Derek K., Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN 47405 USA.'
author: Kang, Youngsoon and Nord, Derek K. and Nye-Lengerman, Kelly M.
author-email: kangx373@umn.edu
author_list:
- family: Kang
  given: Youngsoon
- family: Nord
  given: Derek K.
- family: Nye-Lengerman
  given: Kelly M.
da: '2023-09-28'
files: []
issn: 0022-4154
journal: JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION
keywords: 'weekly earnings; employment outcome; intellectual and developmental

  disabilities (IDD); quantile regression; RSA-911'
keywords-plus: 'EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES; POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION;

  PEOPLE; YOUTH; INDIVIDUALS; EFFICIENCY; BENEFITS; WORKING; GENDER'
language: English
month: JAN-MAR
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '66'
pages: 4-14
papis_id: bb0326a9848291dfa7de34eac45ff4f3
ref: Kang2019weeklywage
times-cited: '6'
title: 'Weekly Wage Exploration of Vocational Rehabilitation Service Recipients: A
  Quantile Regression Approach'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000460848300001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '3'
volume: '85'
web-of-science-categories: Rehabilitation
year: '2019'