This paper investigates when differences in behaviour problems between disabled children and non-disabled children emerge and how they develop up to age 7. This paper is co-authored with Rebecca Fauth and Samantha Parsons. Download the working paper from the Institute of Education site. Photo credit: Honza Soukup
Interpreting wage gaps of disabled men: the roles of productivity and of discrimination uses the UK Labour Force Survey to investigate wage gaps for disabled men after the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act. Access the abstract and details of the article from the Southern Economic Journal website Photo credit: World Bank Photo Collection
This book brings together the latest empirical evidence with a discussion of sociological debates surrounding inequality. As well as treating the core sociological topics of class, ethnicity and gender, it examines how inequalities are experienced across a wide variety of settings – education, health, geography and housing, income and wealth – and how they cumulate … More Understanding Inequalities: Stratification and Difference
The spread of Disability Living Allowance examines the spread of Disability Living Allowance across a group of low income households in an industrial town in North West England from the introduction of the new benefits in 1992 until the Spring of 1996. Access the abstract and details of the article on the Disability and Society journal … More The spread of Disability Living Allowance
Decomposing pay gaps across the wage distribution: investigating inequalities of ethno-religious groups and disabled people is an ISER Working Paper. The paper provides a contemporary account of inequalities in pay of disabled people and those from selected minority ethno-religious groups. It investigates whether pay gaps are a consequence of individual earning potential as represented, for example, by … More Decomposing pay gaps across the wage distribution
Long-term health conditions and Disability Living Allowance: exploring ethnic differences and similarities in access makes use of the Labour Force Survey data combined with detailed new qualitative work to examine patterns of receipt and issues of access to DLA across four ethnic groups. Access the article on the Sociology of Health and Illness website
Lucinda Platt 