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Discrimination by Gender and Disability Status: Do Worker Perceptions Match Statistical Measures?
Author(s) -
Hallock Kevin F.,
Hendricks Wallace,
Broadbent Emer
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
southern economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.762
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 2325-8012
pISSN - 0038-4038
DOI - 10.1002/j.2325-8012.1998.tb00148.x
Subject(s) - statistical discrimination , perception , feeling , psychology , social psychology , gender discrimination , disability discrimination , employment discrimination , demographic economics , political science , economics , neuroscience , law
We explore whether perceptions of discrimination are related to ordinary statistical measures. The majority of disabled respondents report feeling some discrimination due to their disability, the majority of women feel some discrimination because of their gender, and a surprising number of men also report some discrimination. We do not find a strong link between perceptions of discrimination and measured discrimination perhaps because those who perceive discrimination feel that it occurs along other dimensions than pay. However, we do find a connection between whether a person feels his or her income is inadequate and measured discrimination for all groups studied.