Repeal of Subminimum Wages and Social Determinants of Health Among People With Disabilities.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

People with disabilities experience pervasive health disparities driven by adverse social determinants of health, such as unemployment. Section 14(c) of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act has been a controversial policy that allows people with disabilities to be paid below the prevailing minimum wage, but its impact on employment remains unknown despite ongoing national debates about its repeal.

Objective

To estimate whether state-level repeal of Section 14(c) was associated with employment-related outcomes for people with cognitive disability.

Design, setting, and participants

This quasi-experimental, synthetic difference-in-differences study used individual-level data from the 2010-2019 American Community Surveys. Outcomes before and after subminimum wage

SUBMITTER: Kakara M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11568457 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature