Michelle Maroto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Maroto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Maroto |
| SIGNATURE | MAROTO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7506-0046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 261 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Economic Self-Interest and Support for Income Redistribution from Early Adulthood to Midlife: The Role of Unemployment and High Income
Understanding the Link Between Housing and Drug Use: Findings from a Survey of People Who Use Drugs in a Mid-Size Canadian City
BACKGROUND: This article investigates the potential links between housing instability and unregulated drug use at the intersection of the housing affordability crisis, drug poisoning emergency, and the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: = 406, April-September 2023). This study examines the associations between housing instability, the severity of individual drug use patterns, as measured through the Drug Use Disorders Identification Test (DUDIT) score, …
The effects of disability and caregiving on work and perceptions of economic insecurity in Sweden, Italy, Germany, and the UK
Disability is associated with a range of structural disadvantages facing individuals and households alike. Drawing from a recent online cross-national survey of Germany, Italy, Sweden, and the UK, we explore the relationships between disability, caregiving, employment, and perceived economic insecurity. We examine whether having a household member with disabilities increases the likelihood of caregiving, and whether both disability and caregiving…
It's a Matter of Institutional Trust: Seasonal Childhood Vaccine Uptake During a Time of Mixed Messages in Alberta, Canada
In a time of conflicting information, how does trust in institutions and their messages shape parents’ decisions around childhood vaccination? Using a mixed-methods approach with survey (N = 337 parents) and interview data (N = 23), this study explores seasonal vaccine uptake and hesitancy among parents in the Canadian province of Alberta since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that parental perceptions of vaccinations largely reflec…
Working Part-Time: Earnings Penalties Among People with Disabilities Across Occupational Groups in France
Although part-time work can provide important accommodations and flexibility for people with disabilities, the rise of contingent labor has left many of these workers in lower-paid jobs that are often associated with manual labor or routine service work. Why do people with disabilities work part-time? What are the benefits and drawbacks of part-time work, and do these vary across occupations? Using data from the 2013–2019 French Labor Force Surve…
Nepo Babies and the Myth of Meritocracy
Mainstream media reports on the rise of “nepo babies” have brought renewed attention to the advantages that famous and well-connected parents can provide. Drawing from a sample of 331 in-print and online articles, we apply a cultural frame analysis to study news media discourse around nepotism with a focus on how celebrity children are represented and whether these representations support or refute an ideology of meritocracy. We find that nepotis…
February 2024 issue: Introduction
Economic precarity and changing levels of anxiety and stress among Canadians with disabilities and chronic health conditions throughout the Covid‐19 pandemic
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple event stressors converged to exacerbate a growing mental health crisis in Canada with differing effects across status groups. However, less is known about changing mental health situations throughout the pandemic, especially among individuals more likely to experience chronic stress because of their disability and health status. Using data from two waves of a targeted online survey of people with disabilit…
Moving Beyond Linear Regression: Implementing and Interpreting Quantile Regression Models With Fixed Effects
Quantile regression (QR) provides an alternative to linear regression (LR) that allows for the estimation of relationships across the distribution of an outcome. However, as highlighted in recent research on the motherhood penalty across the wage distribution, different procedures for conditional and unconditional quantile regression (CQR, UQR) often result in divergent findings that are not always well understood. In light of such discrepancies,…
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the wide range and depth of sociological theory and research on disability-brought together for the first time in one volume. Each section of the Handbook incorporates a uniquely sociological perspective, presented by an international group of experts on intersecting social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of disability, that complement…
Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability
Is everyone really middle class? Social class position and identification in Alberta
In defining social class, researchers often rely on measures of objective class position, even though subjective perceptions of social class identity can better account for the creation of social class boundaries. We explore the relationship between measures of objective class position and subjective class identity using data from an online survey of 1155 residents in Alberta, Canada, a conservative province dependent on a fluctuating energy sect…
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis
Symbolic boundaries shape how we see and understand both ourselves and those around us. Amid periods of crisis, these boundaries can appear more salient, sharpening distinctions between 'us' and 'them' and reinforcing inequalities in the social landscape. Based on 50 in-depth interviews about pandemic experiences among Canadians with disabilities and chronic health conditions, we examine how this community distinguishes between the 'deserving' an…
Living on the Edge: Institutional Supports and Perceptions of Economic Insecurity Among People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
The growth of precarious employment coupled with declining social safety nets has increased economic insecurity among many households, leaving them without key resources to weather financial hardships like those brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been especially true for people whose disabilities, health statuses, and already precarious economic situations have made them extra vulnerable. We combine survey (N = 1,027) and interview (N …
Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers
The Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage laws provide important protections for workers. However, it still permits employers to pay subminimum wages to youth under age 20, student-vocational learners, full-time students, individuals with disabilities, and tipped workers. This has important economic consequences, especially for economically vulnerable workers in the low-wage sector. Using 2009–2019 Current Population Survey–Merged Outgoing Rota…
The Sociology of Disability-Based Economic Inequality
Perceptions of Canadian Federal Policy Responses to Covid-19 among People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
This study examines how people with disabilities and chronic health conditions-members of a large and diverse group often overlooked by Canadian public policy-are making sense of the Canadian federal government's response to COVID-19. Using original national online survey data collected in June 2020 ( N = 1,027), we investigate how members of this group view the government's overall response. Although survey results show broad support for the fed…
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal process that permits the voluntary discharge of debt by both individuals and businesses. Bankruptcy laws fluctuate across time and place, determined by need and ideology. Although most non‐business bankruptcies occur after individuals experience adverse events and many recent laws emphasize the importance of a “fresh start,” bankruptcy still remains on a person's credit report for many years, which can limit opportunities la…
The Great Balancing Act: Households, Debt, and Economic Insecurity
Balancing finances is a complicated and precarious act for many U.S. households, with constant concerns that income will not be enough. What happens when households are no longer able to keep up this balancing act? This research draws on 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances data to examine varying experiences of economic insecurity, measured as whether a household's expenses exceeded its income in the previous year, and households' strategies for man…
Working Differently or Not at All: Covid-19's Effects on Employment among People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed employment situations for workers everywhere. This is especially true among people with disabilities and chronic health conditions who face greater risks in contracting COVID-19 and experience larger disadvantages within the labor market. Drawing from original data gathered through a national online survey ( N = 1,027) and integrated set of virtual interviews ( N = 50) with Canadians with disabilities…
Combating Inequality: The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities
This article addresses whether and how unions help to dismantle workplace inequality experienced by people with different types of disabilities. Using pooled 2009–2018 CPS MORG data of 630,799 respondents covering almost a decade, we find that union membership benefits workers with disabilities more than other groups and workers with the severest disabilities benefit the most from being in unionized work. Because union membership increases disabl…
Barriers to Economic Security: Disability, Employment, and Asset Disparities in Canada
Although ample research shows that people with disabilities face significant labor market barriers, questions remain about whether and how disadvantages in employment and earnings contribute to economic insecurity. We use 1999 to 2012 Canadian Survey of Financial Security data to study disparities in nonhousing assets, which include household savings, stocks, and pensions, across households with and without disabilities. We find that households w…
Owning, renting, or living with parents? Changing housing situations among Canadian young adults, 2001 to 2011
Homeownership is a central component of wealth, but many young adults today struggle to enter the housing market, opting to rent or live at home with their parents instead. Despite these trends, few recent Canadian studies have addressed the housing arrangements of young adults. We use pooled cross-sectional General Social Survey data from 2001 to 2011 to analyze three types of housing arrangements among 18- to 35-year-olds. Findings show that al…
The Varying Effects of Incarceration, Conviction, and Arrest on Wealth Outcomes among Young Adults
Previous research indicates that incarceration leads to declines in rates of homeownership and net worth, especially among baby boomers, but questions remain as to how other types of criminal justice system contact affect wealth outcomes during the transition to adulthood. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate how arrests, convictions, and incarceration influence net worth, financial assets, and debt among…
Economic Insecurity among Gay and Bisexual Men: Evidence from the 1991–2016 U.S. General Social Survey
Although a sizeable body of research has examined the labor market outcomes for sexual minority men, suggesting that gay and bisexual men earn less than their heterosexual counterparts, fewer studies have addressed whether any apparent earnings disadvantages for sexual minority men extend to economic insecurity more broadly. Using 1991–2016 U.S. General Social Survey (GSS) data, we examine three measures of economic insecurity—household income, p…
Growing Farther Apart: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Household Wealth Across the Distribution
This article investigates net worth disparities by race and ethnicity using pooled data from the 1998–2013 waves of the U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances. I apply unconditional quantile regression models to examine net worth throughout the wealth distribution and decomposition procedures to demonstrate how different factors related to demographics, human capital, financial attitudes, and credit market access contribute to racial wealth disparities…
A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011
Bryan L. Sykes, Michelle Maroto, A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 6, Wealth Inequality: Economic and Social Dimensions (October 2016), pp. 129-152
Disability, structural inequality, and work: The influence of occupational segregation on earnings for people with different disabilities
The Limitations of Disability Antidiscrimination Legislation: Policymaking and the Economic Well‐being of People with Disabilities
Although Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to address, in large part, the declining economic well‐being of people with disabilities—twenty years later—the trend has not reversed. To shed light on this puzzle, we use multilevel models to analyze Current Population Survey data from 1988 through 2012 matched with state‐level predictors. We take a more nuanced approach than previous research and consider institutional factors …
When the Kids Live at Home: Coresidence, Parental Assets, and Economic Insecurity
This study uses National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort data from 1994 through 2012 (N = 16,108 person-years, 4,671 individuals) to investigate how coresidence with adult children influences asset levels among parents. It applies hybrid mixed effects regression models that partition between- and within-person variation to estimate parental savings and financial assets over time and across different households. The results suggest that c…
Hierarchies of Categorical Disadvantage: Economic Insecurity at the Intersection of Disability, Gender, and Race
Intersectional feminist scholars emphasize how overlapping systems of oppression structure gender inequality, but in focusing on the gendered, classed, and racialized bases of stratification, many often overlook disability as an important social category in determining economic outcomes. This is a significant omission given that disability severely limits opportunities and contributes to cumulative disadvantage. We draw from feminist disability a…
The Sociology of Disability-Based Economic Inequality
Economic Insecurity among Gay and Bisexual Men: Evidence from the 1991–2016 U.S. General Social Survey
Although a sizeable body of research has examined the labor market outcomes for sexual minority men, suggesting that gay and bisexual men earn less than their heterosexual counterparts, fewer studies have addressed whether any apparent earnings disadvantages for sexual minority men extend to economic insecurity more broadly. Using 1991–2016 U.S. General Social Survey (GSS) data, we examine three measures of economic insecurity—household income, p…
Saving, Sharing, or Spending? The Wealth Consequences of Raising Children
This study uses 1986–2012 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort data to investigate the relationship between raising children and net worth among younger Baby Boomer parents. I combine fixed-effects and unconditional quantile regression models to estimate changes in net worth associated with having children in different age groups across the wealth distribution. This allows me to test whether standard economic models for savings and c…
What Trends? Whose Choices: Comment on England
Moving Beyond Linear Regression: Implementing and Interpreting Quantile Regression Models With Fixed Effects
Quantile regression (QR) provides an alternative to linear regression (LR) that allows for the estimation of relationships across the distribution of an outcome. However, as highlighted in recent research on the motherhood penalty across the wage distribution, different procedures for conditional and unconditional quantile regression (CQR, UQR) often result in divergent findings that are not always well understood. In light of such discrepancies,…
The Varying Effects of Incarceration, Conviction, and Arrest on Wealth Outcomes among Young Adults
Previous research indicates that incarceration leads to declines in rates of homeownership and net worth, especially among baby boomers, but questions remain as to how other types of criminal justice system contact affect wealth outcomes during the transition to adulthood. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate how arrests, convictions, and incarceration influence net worth, financial assets, and debt among…
Barriers to Economic Security: Disability, Employment, and Asset Disparities in Canada
Although ample research shows that people with disabilities face significant labor market barriers, questions remain about whether and how disadvantages in employment and earnings contribute to economic insecurity. We use 1999 to 2012 Canadian Survey of Financial Security data to study disparities in nonhousing assets, which include household savings, stocks, and pensions, across households with and without disabilities. We find that households w…
Fifteen Years of Wealth Disparities in Canada: New Trends or Simply the Status Quo
Despite the importance of credit markets in determining well-being, research on wealth inequality across groups in Canada has been limited. To address this gap, this paper documents disparities in net worth and home ownership over the past 15 years using three waves of the Canadian Survey of Financial Security (1999, 2005, and 2012). Beyond providing a basic discussion of wealth inequality in Canada, this study also highlights wealth disparities …
Catching Up or Falling Behind? Continuing Wealth Disparities for Immigrants to Canada by Region of Origin and Cohort
This paper investigates wealth disparities among first-generation immigrants using data from the 2012 Survey of Financial Security. We apply logistic and linear regression models to estimate disparities in homeownership and household equivalent net worth by immigrant status, region of origin, and time since arrival. By focusing on immigrant families from different regions who entered Canada at different points in time, this research applies theor…
Perceptions of Canadian Federal Policy Responses to Covid-19 among People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
This study examines how people with disabilities and chronic health conditions-members of a large and diverse group often overlooked by Canadian public policy-are making sense of the Canadian federal government's response to COVID-19. Using original national online survey data collected in June 2020 ( N = 1,027), we investigate how members of this group view the government's overall response. Although survey results show broad support for the fed…
Working Differently or Not at All: Covid-19's Effects on Employment among People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed employment situations for workers everywhere. This is especially true among people with disabilities and chronic health conditions who face greater risks in contracting COVID-19 and experience larger disadvantages within the labor market. Drawing from original data gathered through a national online survey ( N = 1,027) and integrated set of virtual interviews ( N = 50) with Canadians with disabilities…
The political economy of pension reform in Russia: Why partial privatization
Owning, renting, or living with parents? Changing housing situations among Canadian young adults, 2001 to 2011
Homeownership is a central component of wealth, but many young adults today struggle to enter the housing market, opting to rent or live at home with their parents instead. Despite these trends, few recent Canadian studies have addressed the housing arrangements of young adults. We use pooled cross-sectional General Social Survey data from 2001 to 2011 to analyze three types of housing arrangements among 18- to 35-year-olds. Findings show that al…
Pathways into Bankruptcy: Accumulating Disadvantage and the Consequences of Adverse Life Events
This study combines theories of accumulating disadvantage and economic insecurity using the event of bankruptcy to investigate how certain adverse life events jointly affect inequality. I analyze National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data from 1985 through 2008 to highlight the complexities of financial hardship in the path to bankruptcy. By applying hybrid mixed effects models to parse out within- and between-person variation, I show that, in th…
Professionalizing Body Art: A Marginalized Occupational Group’s Use of Informal and Formal Strategies of Control
When confronted with situations of increasing size and popularity, previously marginalized occupational groups struggle to maintain control over two spheres related to business: the persons involved in the process, and standards for producing products. This analysis applies the concept of control to professionalization strategies used by a sample of body art practitioners in King County, WA. The study findings depict a situation where occupationa…
The Great Balancing Act: Households, Debt, and Economic Insecurity
Balancing finances is a complicated and precarious act for many U.S. households, with constant concerns that income will not be enough. What happens when households are no longer able to keep up this balancing act? This research draws on 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances data to examine varying experiences of economic insecurity, measured as whether a household's expenses exceeded its income in the previous year, and households' strategies for man…
Combating Inequality: The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities
This article addresses whether and how unions help to dismantle workplace inequality experienced by people with different types of disabilities. Using pooled 2009–2018 CPS MORG data of 630,799 respondents covering almost a decade, we find that union membership benefits workers with disabilities more than other groups and workers with the severest disabilities benefit the most from being in unionized work. Because union membership increases disabl…
Is everyone really middle class? Social class position and identification in Alberta
In defining social class, researchers often rely on measures of objective class position, even though subjective perceptions of social class identity can better account for the creation of social class boundaries. We explore the relationship between measures of objective class position and subjective class identity using data from an online survey of 1155 residents in Alberta, Canada, a conservative province dependent on a fluctuating energy sect…
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis
Symbolic boundaries shape how we see and understand both ourselves and those around us. Amid periods of crisis, these boundaries can appear more salient, sharpening distinctions between 'us' and 'them' and reinforcing inequalities in the social landscape. Based on 50 in-depth interviews about pandemic experiences among Canadians with disabilities and chronic health conditions, we examine how this community distinguishes between the 'deserving' an…
The political economy of pension reform in Russia: Why partial privatization
What Trends? Whose Choices: Comment on England
Professionalizing Body Art: A Marginalized Occupational Group’s Use of Informal and Formal Strategies of Control
When confronted with situations of increasing size and popularity, previously marginalized occupational groups struggle to maintain control over two spheres related to business: the persons involved in the process, and standards for producing products. This analysis applies the concept of control to professionalization strategies used by a sample of body art practitioners in King County, WA. The study findings depict a situation where occupationa…
Disability, structural inequality, and work: The influence of occupational segregation on earnings for people with different disabilities
The Limitations of Disability Antidiscrimination Legislation: Policymaking and the Economic Well‐being of People with Disabilities
Although Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to address, in large part, the declining economic well‐being of people with disabilities—twenty years later—the trend has not reversed. To shed light on this puzzle, we use multilevel models to analyze Current Population Survey data from 1988 through 2012 matched with state‐level predictors. We take a more nuanced approach than previous research and consider institutional factors …
Pathways into Bankruptcy: Accumulating Disadvantage and the Consequences of Adverse Life Events
This study combines theories of accumulating disadvantage and economic insecurity using the event of bankruptcy to investigate how certain adverse life events jointly affect inequality. I analyze National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data from 1985 through 2008 to highlight the complexities of financial hardship in the path to bankruptcy. By applying hybrid mixed effects models to parse out within- and between-person variation, I show that, in th…
A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011
Bryan L. Sykes, Michelle Maroto, A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 6, Wealth Inequality: Economic and Social Dimensions (October 2016), pp. 129-152
Growing Farther Apart: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Household Wealth Across the Distribution
This article investigates net worth disparities by race and ethnicity using pooled data from the 1998–2013 waves of the U.S. Survey of Consumer Finances. I apply unconditional quantile regression models to examine net worth throughout the wealth distribution and decomposition procedures to demonstrate how different factors related to demographics, human capital, financial attitudes, and credit market access contribute to racial wealth disparities…
Catching Up or Falling Behind? Continuing Wealth Disparities for Immigrants to Canada by Region of Origin and Cohort
This paper investigates wealth disparities among first-generation immigrants using data from the 2012 Survey of Financial Security. We apply logistic and linear regression models to estimate disparities in homeownership and household equivalent net worth by immigrant status, region of origin, and time since arrival. By focusing on immigrant families from different regions who entered Canada at different points in time, this research applies theor…
Fifteen Years of Wealth Disparities in Canada: New Trends or Simply the Status Quo
Despite the importance of credit markets in determining well-being, research on wealth inequality across groups in Canada has been limited. To address this gap, this paper documents disparities in net worth and home ownership over the past 15 years using three waves of the Canadian Survey of Financial Security (1999, 2005, and 2012). Beyond providing a basic discussion of wealth inequality in Canada, this study also highlights wealth disparities …
When the Kids Live at Home: Coresidence, Parental Assets, and Economic Insecurity
This study uses National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort data from 1994 through 2012 (N = 16,108 person-years, 4,671 individuals) to investigate how coresidence with adult children influences asset levels among parents. It applies hybrid mixed effects regression models that partition between- and within-person variation to estimate parental savings and financial assets over time and across different households. The results suggest that c…
Saving, Sharing, or Spending? The Wealth Consequences of Raising Children
This study uses 1986–2012 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort data to investigate the relationship between raising children and net worth among younger Baby Boomer parents. I combine fixed-effects and unconditional quantile regression models to estimate changes in net worth associated with having children in different age groups across the wealth distribution. This allows me to test whether standard economic models for savings and c…
Economic Insecurity among Gay and Bisexual Men: Evidence from the 1991–2016 U.S. General Social Survey
Although a sizeable body of research has examined the labor market outcomes for sexual minority men, suggesting that gay and bisexual men earn less than their heterosexual counterparts, fewer studies have addressed whether any apparent earnings disadvantages for sexual minority men extend to economic insecurity more broadly. Using 1991–2016 U.S. General Social Survey (GSS) data, we examine three measures of economic insecurity—household income, p…
Hierarchies of Categorical Disadvantage: Economic Insecurity at the Intersection of Disability, Gender, and Race
Intersectional feminist scholars emphasize how overlapping systems of oppression structure gender inequality, but in focusing on the gendered, classed, and racialized bases of stratification, many often overlook disability as an important social category in determining economic outcomes. This is a significant omission given that disability severely limits opportunities and contributes to cumulative disadvantage. We draw from feminist disability a…
Barriers to Economic Security: Disability, Employment, and Asset Disparities in Canada
Although ample research shows that people with disabilities face significant labor market barriers, questions remain about whether and how disadvantages in employment and earnings contribute to economic insecurity. We use 1999 to 2012 Canadian Survey of Financial Security data to study disparities in nonhousing assets, which include household savings, stocks, and pensions, across households with and without disabilities. We find that households w…
Owning, renting, or living with parents? Changing housing situations among Canadian young adults, 2001 to 2011
Homeownership is a central component of wealth, but many young adults today struggle to enter the housing market, opting to rent or live at home with their parents instead. Despite these trends, few recent Canadian studies have addressed the housing arrangements of young adults. We use pooled cross-sectional General Social Survey data from 2001 to 2011 to analyze three types of housing arrangements among 18- to 35-year-olds. Findings show that al…
The Varying Effects of Incarceration, Conviction, and Arrest on Wealth Outcomes among Young Adults
Previous research indicates that incarceration leads to declines in rates of homeownership and net worth, especially among baby boomers, but questions remain as to how other types of criminal justice system contact affect wealth outcomes during the transition to adulthood. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we investigate how arrests, convictions, and incarceration influence net worth, financial assets, and debt among…
Perceptions of Canadian Federal Policy Responses to Covid-19 among People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
This study examines how people with disabilities and chronic health conditions-members of a large and diverse group often overlooked by Canadian public policy-are making sense of the Canadian federal government's response to COVID-19. Using original national online survey data collected in June 2020 ( N = 1,027), we investigate how members of this group view the government's overall response. Although survey results show broad support for the fed…
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal process that permits the voluntary discharge of debt by both individuals and businesses. Bankruptcy laws fluctuate across time and place, determined by need and ideology. Although most non‐business bankruptcies occur after individuals experience adverse events and many recent laws emphasize the importance of a “fresh start,” bankruptcy still remains on a person's credit report for many years, which can limit opportunities la…
The Great Balancing Act: Households, Debt, and Economic Insecurity
Balancing finances is a complicated and precarious act for many U.S. households, with constant concerns that income will not be enough. What happens when households are no longer able to keep up this balancing act? This research draws on 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances data to examine varying experiences of economic insecurity, measured as whether a household's expenses exceeded its income in the previous year, and households' strategies for man…
Working Differently or Not at All: Covid-19's Effects on Employment among People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed employment situations for workers everywhere. This is especially true among people with disabilities and chronic health conditions who face greater risks in contracting COVID-19 and experience larger disadvantages within the labor market. Drawing from original data gathered through a national online survey ( N = 1,027) and integrated set of virtual interviews ( N = 50) with Canadians with disabilities…
Combating Inequality: The Between- and Within-Group Effects of Unionization on Earnings for People with Different Disabilities
This article addresses whether and how unions help to dismantle workplace inequality experienced by people with different types of disabilities. Using pooled 2009–2018 CPS MORG data of 630,799 respondents covering almost a decade, we find that union membership benefits workers with disabilities more than other groups and workers with the severest disabilities benefit the most from being in unionized work. Because union membership increases disabl…
Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers
The Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage laws provide important protections for workers. However, it still permits employers to pay subminimum wages to youth under age 20, student-vocational learners, full-time students, individuals with disabilities, and tipped workers. This has important economic consequences, especially for economically vulnerable workers in the low-wage sector. Using 2009–2019 Current Population Survey–Merged Outgoing Rota…
The Sociology of Disability-Based Economic Inequality
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Disability provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the wide range and depth of sociological theory and research on disability-brought together for the first time in one volume. Each section of the Handbook incorporates a uniquely sociological perspective, presented by an international group of experts on intersecting social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of disability, that complement…
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