The role of workplace accommodations in the employment of people with disabilities

Anand, Priyanka; Sevak, Purvi

doi:10.1186/s40173-017-0090-4

Table 4 Regression results of employment on workplace accommodations, overall, and by disability subgroup

From: The role of workplace accommodations in the employment of people with disabilities

		Dependent variable: currently employed
Characteristics	All	(1) Physical only	(2) Sensory only	(3) Psychiatric only	(4) Multiple disabilities	(5) Recent disability onset
	N = 2282	N = 894	N = 236	N = 190	N = 873	N = 339
Accommodations received in current or most recent job
Flexible schedule	0.078***	0.151***	0.042	− 0.069	0.056*	0.208***
	[0.02]	[0.03]	[0.07]	[0.07]	[0.03]	[0.05]
Job coach/training	− 0.037*	− 0.000	− 0.105	− 0.014	− 0.042	− 0.087
	[0.02]	[0.03]	[0.07]	[0.08]	[0.03]	[0.06]
Arranged assistance from coworkers	− 0.000	0.037	− 0.004	0.014	− 0.026	− 0.024
	[0.02]	[0.04]	[0.08]	[0.10]	[0.04]	[0.06]
Modified job duties	0.032	− 0.036	− 0.065	0.074	0.081**	0.155**
	[0.03]	[0.04]	[0.10]	[0.10]	[0.04]	[0.07]
Help with transportation	0.089***	0.094**	0.108	− 0.129	0.103**	− 0.013
	[0.03]	[0.05]	[0.09]	[0.12]	[0.04]	[0.09]
Special equipment or modified work space	− 0.005	0.003	0.079	− 0.071	− 0.001	− 0.025
	[0.03]	[0.05]	[0.13]	[0.10]	[0.05]	[0.08]
Counseling on work benefit	0.016	− 0.012	0.083	− 0.101	0.014	− 0.035
	[0.03]	[0.05]	[0.11]	[0.12]	[0.05]	[0.10]
Counseling/therapy	0.001	− 0.041	− 0.054	0.198	0.018	0.038
	[0.03]	[0.05]	[0.09]	[0.17]	[0.05]	[0.10]
Personal care/assistant	0.070*	− 0.011	0.072	0.230	0.101*	0.091
	[0.04]	[0.06]	[0.15]	[0.15]	[0.06]	[0.11]
Help with child/family care	− 0.081*	− 0.016	− 0.275	− 0.134	− 0.076	0.142
	[0.05]	[0.08]	[0.19]	[0.22]	[0.07]	[0.16]
Gender
Male	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted
Female	0.019	0.103***	− 0.036	− 0.047	− 0.032	0.112**
	[0.02]	[0.03]	[0.07]	[0.07]	[0.03]	[0.05]
Race
White only	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted
Black only	− 0.034	0.003	− 0.089	− 0.151*	− 0.039	0.033
	[0.02]	[0.03]	[0.08]	[0.08]	[0.04]	[0.06]
Other	0.028	− 0.026	0.053	− 0.013	0.046	− 0.061
	[0.04]	[0.07]	[0.11]	[0.20]	[0.05]	[0.10]
Hispanic	0.043	0.016	− 0.154	0.309**	0.069	− 0.051
	[0.04]	[0.06]	[0.16]	[0.16]	[0.07]	[0.11]
Education
Less than high school	− 0.037	− 0.091**	0.183*	− 0.204	− 0.029	− 0.031
	[0.03]	[0.05]	[0.11]	[0.15]	[0.04]	[0.08]
High school	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted
Some college or associate’s degree	0.005	− 0.030	0.054	0.041	0.005	− 0.045
	[0.02]	[0.04]	[0.07]	[0.09]	[0.04]	[0.06]
Bachelor’s degree or higher	0.159***	0.124**	0.211**	0.148	0.190***	0.044
	[0.03]	[0.06]	[0.10]	[0.09]	[0.05]	[0.08]
Disability type
Physical only	Omitted					Omitted
Sensory only	0.295***					0.390***
	[0.04]					[0.10]
Intellectual only	0.186*
	[0.11]
Cognitive only	− 0.024					− 0.078
	[0.06]					[0.21]
Psychiatric only	0.015					0.285***
	[0.03]					[0.10]
Other only	0.055					0.606*
	[0.12]					[0.32]
Several disabilities	0.005					− 0.018
	[0.02]					[0.07]
Age (mean)	0.000	0.001	− 0.002	0.003	− 0.001	0.003
	[0.00]	[0.00]	[0.00]	[0.00]	[0.00]	[0.00]
Married	0.084***	0.126***	− 0.180*	0.121	0.064	0.158***
	[0.02]	[0.04]	[0.11]	[0.07]	[0.04]	[0.06]
Self-rated health
Excellent	0.034	0.087	− 0.093	0.006	0.022	0.002
	[0.04]	[0.07]	[0.11]	[0.11]	[0.07]	[0.10]
Very good	0.069**	0.123***	0.039	− 0.045	0.065	0.019
	[0.03]	[0.05]	[0.08]	[0.08]	[0.05]	[0.07]
Good	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted
Fair	− 0.063**	− 0.043	− 0.057	0.154	− 0.076**	− 0.041
	[0.02]	[0.04]	[0.10]	[0.15]	[0.04]	[0.07]
Poor	− 0.183***	− 0.143***	− 0.281	− 0.800**	− 0.167***	− 0.278***
	[0.03]	[0.05]	[0.22]	[0.37]	[0.05]	[0.09]
Years since onset	− 0.001	− 0.002	− 0.001	− 0.003	0.002	− 0.036
	[0.00]	[0.00]	[0.00]	[0.00]	[0.00]	[0.05]
Birth onset	0.056	0.222**	− 0.150	− 0.143	0.067
	[0.05]	[0.09]	[0.37]	[0.13]	[0.07]
Executive functioning
Is a reliable worker	0.058*	0.012	0.190**	0.260	0.047	0.094
	[0.03]	[0.06]	[0.10]	[0.16]	[0.04]	[0.10]
Perseveres until task is done	0.020	0.036	0.132	0.002	− 0.002	0.053
	[0.03]	[0.04]	[0.09]	[0.13]	[0.04]	[0.07]
Is easily distracted	0.020	0.009	0.015	0.057	0.015	− 0.068
	[0.03]	[0.05]	[0.08]	[0.14]	[0.04]	[0.08]

Source: Survey of Disability and Employment. Note: The dependent variable for all regressions is an indicator for being currently employed. Standard errors are in square brackets
*Statistically significant at the 0.10 level; **statistically significant at the 0.05 level; ***statistically significant at the 0.01 level

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