Schur Lisa A
Rutgers University, 50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA.
Behav Sci Law. 2002;20(6):601-20. doi: 10.1002/bsl.512.
How do non-standard jobs affect the economic well-being of workers with disabilities, and what happens when non-standard workers use disability lawsuits to challenge discrimination and improve their economic opportunities? This study uses data from the Current Population Survey, the Survey of Income and Program Participation, and a Lexis search of legal cases to help answer these questions. Temporary employment, independent contracting, and part-time employment are almost twice as likely among workers with disabilities as among those without disabilities. Non-standard workers with disabilities receive lower pay and fewer benefits due both to the types of job they hold, and disability gaps within job types, which contribute to their high poverty rates. They would continue to have high poverty rates even if these pay gaps were eliminated, however, because they work fewer hours than non-standard workers without disabilities and are concentrated in lower-paying occupations. In attempting to improve their opportunities through disability lawsuits, non-standard workers prevail in only a small minority of cases. Several policy implications of the lawsuits and survey data are discussed.
非标准工作如何影响残疾工人的经济福祉？当非标准工人利用残疾诉讼来挑战歧视并改善其经济机会时会发生什么？本研究使用了当前人口调查、收入与项目参与调查的数据，以及对法律案件的Lexis搜索来帮助回答这些问题。残疾工人从事临时工作、独立承包工作和兼职工作的可能性几乎是非残疾工人的两倍。残疾非标准工人的工资较低，福利较少，这既是由于他们所从事的工作类型，也是由于工作类型内部的残疾差距，这些因素导致了他们的高贫困率。然而，即使消除了这些工资差距，他们的贫困率仍将居高不下，因为他们的工作时间比非残疾非标准工人少，并且集中在低薪职业中。在试图通过残疾诉讼来改善机会时，非标准工人在极少数案件中胜诉。本文讨论了这些诉讼和调查数据的若干政策含义。
