Persons with Mental Disorders in the Labor Market

劳动力市场上的精神障碍患者

• 批准号: 6706999
• 负责人: Marjorie L. Baldwin
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-01 至 2005-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6706999
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; developmental disease /disorder; disabling disease; employment /unemployment; health insurance; health surveys; human data; mathematical model; mental disorders; model design /development; occupations; person with disability; prejudice; socioeconomics; work site

DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): The purpose of this research is to develop and assess amodel of mental illness and work disability, with a specific focus on identifying the types of mental disorders associated with poor work outcomes, and the extent to which persons with mental disorders are subject to discrimination in the labor market. Previous research shows that discrimination contributes to the low wages and employment rates of persons with disabilities, and that the extent of discrimination is weakly correlated with the intensity of prejudice against different types of impairments. Persons with mental disorders may be subject to intense prejudice, but there are no studies of labor market discrimination specifically focused on mental illness. In part, this is because the data have not been available to support such a study. The information is now available on the MEPS and the NHIS Disability Survey, and the two data sets can be linked. The proposed project will use this rich data source to provide the first rigorous economic analysis of the impactof mental disorders on outcomes in the labor market. The specific goals of the project are: (1) To compare the relative wages and employment rates of persons with serious mental disorders to persons with physical impairments and non-disabled persons; and to estimate the extent to which the low wages of persons with mental disorders can be attributed to labor market discrimination. (2) To compare the health care and work loss costs of persons with different types of mental disorders and analyze the extent to which expectations regarding expenditures may explain observed wage and employment differentials. (3)To identify job characteristics that enable persons with mental disorders to participate in the labor market (e.g., occupation, health insurance coverage, part-time employment). (4) To analyze the extent to which self-reports of job-related discrimination coincide with measures of discriminatory wage and employment differentials across different types of mental disorders. The proposed project is timely because recent advances in medications for serious mental disorders now enable many persons with these illnesses to participate in the labor market. Yet discrimination may still prevent them from achieving their full potential.

描述(由调查人员提供)：这项研究的目的是建立和评估精神疾病和工作残疾的模型，特别侧重于确定与工作结果差相关的精神障碍的类型，以及精神障碍患者在劳动力市场受到歧视的程度。先前的研究表明，歧视是导致残疾人工资和就业率低的原因之一，而且歧视程度与对不同类型残疾的偏见程度之间的关联很弱。精神障碍患者可能会受到强烈的偏见，但目前还没有专门针对精神疾病的劳动力市场歧视研究。在一定程度上，这是因为没有数据支持这样的研究。这些信息现在可以在欧洲议会议员和NHIS残疾调查上获得，这两个数据集可以联系起来。拟议的项目将使用这一丰富的数据来源，首次对精神障碍对劳动力市场结果的影响进行严格的经济分析。该项目的具体目标是：(1)比较严重精神障碍者与身体残障者和非残疾人的相对工资和就业率；并估计精神障碍者的低工资在多大程度上可归因于劳动力市场歧视。(2)比较不同类型精神障碍患者的医疗保健和工作损失成本，并分析支出预期在多大程度上可以解释观察到的工资和就业差异。(3)确定使精神障碍者能够参与劳动力市场的工作特征(例如，职业、医疗保险覆盖范围、非全日制就业)。(4)分析与工作有关的歧视的自我报告在多大程度上符合不同类型精神障碍的歧视性工资和就业差异的衡量标准。提议的项目是及时的，因为治疗严重精神障碍的药物的最新进展现在使许多患有这些疾病的人能够参与劳动力市场。然而，歧视仍可能阻碍他们充分发挥潜力。