CED Ability Grand Rounds are an important teaching tool that helps our teams and other disability service providers keep up to date in evolving areas that may be directly related to, or associated with our core practice. The CED hosts a variety of state, national and international experts to share information and provide opportunities for discussion.

Workers’ perceptions of disability and utilization of accommodations: Evidence from the healthcare industry

November 12, 2024
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. EST

Presenter:

Yana Rodgers, PhD, Professor, Department of Labor Studies & Employment Relations, Rutgers University

Learning objectives:

Use a novel dataset from the healthcare industry to:

1. Analyze and discuss how different measures of work satisfaction vary between people with and without disabilities.
2. Analyze and discuss how often workers are granted accommodations.
3. Analyze and discuss the extent to which work from home and other accommodations moderate the relationships between work satisfaction and disability.

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