The Earnings and Conversion Gaps for Persons with Disabilities:Evidence from India

Ajay Mahal and Anup Karan
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Anup Karan: Public Health Foundation of India, Gurugram, India

No 175, NCAER Working Papers from National Council of Applied Economic Research

Abstract: WWe evaluate the earnings and conversion disadvantages that persons with disabilities face in India, which has amongst the highest number of persons with disabilities globally. Our study is unique in that we use two major nationally representative household surveys consisting of over 85 thousand households, alongside a qualitative study to explore the nature and the magnitude of these disadvantages. We find that persons with disabilities and the households they live in experience lower earnings (earnings gap) and incur higher costs of translating those earnings into living standards (conversion gap). Because of such costs, persons with disabilities and the households to which they belong are likely to be at disproportionately higher risk of being poor. These disadvantages vary across gender, by rural-urban residence and by severity of disability and considerably exceed government contributions to the wellbeing of people with disabilities.

Keywords: Disability; Employment; Conversion Gap; Earnings; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 I18 I31 J3 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2024-09-24
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