Disability Disqualifies: A Vignette Experiment on Danish Employers’ Intentions to Hire Applicants with Physical Disabilities
The disability and employment literature identifies different factors thought to have an impact on hiring decisions. These factors are identified by surveying employers but have never been tested. Based on a vignette experiment with Danish employers using five different descriptions of a fictitious...
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2020-07-01
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| author | Ditte Shamshiri-Petersen Cecilie Krogh |
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| description | The disability and employment literature identifies different factors thought to have an impact on hiring decisions. These factors are identified by surveying employers but have never been tested. Based on a vignette experiment with Danish employers using five different descriptions of a fictitious job applicant, this study examines the intentions of employers to hire a physically disabled applicant and whether financial compensation, public employment service recommendations, and the prospect of increased workload, influence such intentions. Results show that employers’ intentions regarding hiring drop significantly when they receive a description of an applicant who uses a wheelchair. Adding information regarding the opportunity to apply for financial compensation to the description increases such intentions slightly. This implies that disability in and of itself is a disqualifying factor and that the intended recruitment practise is discriminatory. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-88b14fd5353e4817ad192fc87bc44e3d2023-04-21T12:59:44ZengStockholm University PressScandinavian Journal of Disability Research1745-30112020-07-0122119820910.16993/sjdr.661120Disability Disqualifies: A Vignette Experiment on Danish Employers’ Intentions to Hire Applicants with Physical DisabilitiesDitte Shamshiri-Petersen0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2766-0220Cecilie Krogh1Aalborg UniversityAalborg UniversityThe disability and employment literature identifies different factors thought to have an impact on hiring decisions. These factors are identified by surveying employers but have never been tested. Based on a vignette experiment with Danish employers using five different descriptions of a fictitious job applicant, this study examines the intentions of employers to hire a physically disabled applicant and whether financial compensation, public employment service recommendations, and the prospect of increased workload, influence such intentions. Results show that employers’ intentions regarding hiring drop significantly when they receive a description of an applicant who uses a wheelchair. Adding information regarding the opportunity to apply for financial compensation to the description increases such intentions slightly. This implies that disability in and of itself is a disqualifying factor and that the intended recruitment practise is discriminatory.https://account.sjdr.se/index.php/su-j-sjdr/article/view/661disabilitydiscriminationemploymentemployersvignette experiment |
| spellingShingle | Ditte Shamshiri-Petersen Cecilie Krogh Disability Disqualifies: A Vignette Experiment on Danish Employers’ Intentions to Hire Applicants with Physical Disabilities Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research disability discrimination employment employers vignette experiment |
| title | Disability Disqualifies: A Vignette Experiment on Danish Employers’ Intentions to Hire Applicants with Physical Disabilities |
| title_full | Disability Disqualifies: A Vignette Experiment on Danish Employers’ Intentions to Hire Applicants with Physical Disabilities |
| title_fullStr | Disability Disqualifies: A Vignette Experiment on Danish Employers’ Intentions to Hire Applicants with Physical Disabilities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disability Disqualifies: A Vignette Experiment on Danish Employers’ Intentions to Hire Applicants with Physical Disabilities |
| title_short | Disability Disqualifies: A Vignette Experiment on Danish Employers’ Intentions to Hire Applicants with Physical Disabilities |
| title_sort | disability disqualifies a vignette experiment on danish employers intentions to hire applicants with physical disabilities |
| topic | disability discrimination employment employers vignette experiment |
| url | https://account.sjdr.se/index.php/su-j-sjdr/article/view/661 |
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