Wage discrimination of workers with disabilities in Brazil

An intersectional analysis by gender and race/color

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2022.1.41686

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Labor market, Wage discrimination, Persons with disabilities, Gender, Race/Color

Abstract

This paper investigates wage discrimination against workers with disabilities, as well as its interactions with other social markers of inequality, gender and race/color, using data from the 2010 Demographic Census (IBGE). Four types of disability are investigated: visual, hearing, motor, and mental. A multivariate regression model controlling for occupational fixed effects was used. The results indicate that there is wage discrimination for the four types of disability analyzed. It is observed that the greatest discrimination occurs for workers with severe visual impairment, followed by physical disabilities and, lastly, mental and hearing disabilities. However, such discrimination is of small magnitude when compared to other social markers of inequality, such as gender and race/color. The effect of gender, for example, is six times greater than that of visual impairment while non-white people suffer almost four times more discrimination. When considering the accumulation of the social markers of inequality, disability, gender, and race/ color, it is confirmed that black women with and without disabilities are those who suffer the most from wage discrimination in Brazil. 

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Jadir Soares, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas (ENCE-IBGE), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Doutor em População, Território e Estatísticas Públicas na Escola Nacional de Ciências Estatísticas (Ence-IBGE), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; mestre em Estatística pela Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, em Leuven, Bélgica. Professor na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Maira Covre-Sussai, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Doutora em Ciências Sociais pela Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, em Leuven, Bélgica; mestre em Análise Quantitativa aplicada às Ciências Sociais pela Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, em Leuven, Bélgica. Professora na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Isadora Vianna Sento-Sé, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Mestre em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. Doutoranda em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

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2022-11-30

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Soares, J., Covre-Sussai, M., & Sento-Sé, I. V. (2022). Wage discrimination of workers with disabilities in Brazil: An intersectional analysis by gender and race/color. Civitas: Journal of Social Sciences, 22, e41686. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7289.2022.1.41686

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Vol. 22 (2022): Single volume - Continuous flow of publication

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Dossier: Stratification in the 21 Century

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