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Wage Differentials Between College Graduates With and Without Learning Disabilities

David L. Dickinson

Utah State University

Roelant L. Verbeek

Federal Express in Memphis, Tennessee

Wage differential studies examining legally protected groups typically focus on gender or racial differences. Legislation also fully protects individuals with learning disabilities (LD). This article is the first to decompose wage differentials between adults with and without LD. An original data set of college graduates with documented LD was constructed, and these individuals were compared to a control group from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Our results show that much of the observed lower wages for individuals with LD is due to differences in productivity characteristics. However, there is an unexplained portion of the wage gap that could possibly be considered wage discrimination against individuals with LD. This possibility seems smaller due to the fact that the subsample of the employers who knew of the employee's learning disabilities did not appear to pay significantly lower wages to these individuals. Alternative hypotheses are discussed, as are sample-specific issues.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 35, No. 2, 175-184 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/002221940203500208
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