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Factors Influencing Job Separation Among Workers with Psychiatric Disabilities

This study examines reasons for job separations among workers with psychiatric disabilities, considering factors like working conditions, job satisfaction, wages, and worker characteristics. Results show voluntary quits are influenced by hours worked, dissatisfaction, low wages, temporary positions, and industry. Older workers, minority groups, and regions with high employment rates have lower quit rates. Antecedents highlight issues in the secondary labor market. Valuable insights for return-to-work programs and disability employment policies.

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Factors Influencing Job Separation Among Workers with Psychiatric Disabilities

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  1. Reasons for job separations in a cohort of workers with psychiatric disabilities Judith A. Cook, PhD; Jane K. Burke-Miller, PhD

  2. Aim • Explore the relative effects of adverse working conditions, job satisfaction, wages, worker characteristics, and local labor markets in explaining voluntary job separations (quits) among employed workers with psychiatric disabilities. • Relevance • Information about the causes and antecedents of voluntary job separation is needed to inform return to work and job retention interventions as well as public disability employment policies.

  3. Method • Data come from the Employment Intervention Demonstration Program. • 2,086 jobs ended by 892 workers during 24 mo observation period. • Used stepped multivariable logistic regression analysis to examine the effect of variables on the likelihood of quitting.

  4. Results • Job separations: • Voluntary: 59% • Involuntary: 41% • Firings: 17% • Temporary job endings: 14% • Layoffs: 10% • In multivariable analysis, workers were more likely to quit when: • They were employed ≤20 h/wk. • They were dissatisfied. • Position was low-wage. • Position was temporary. • Position was in the structural (construction) occupation. • Voluntary separation was less likely for: • Older workers. • Members of racial/ethnic minority groups. • Those residing in regions with lower unemployment rates.

  5. Conclusion • Patterns of job separation for workers with psychiatric disabilities mirrored some findings regarding job leaving in the general labor force but contradicted others. • Job separation antecedents reflect the concentration of jobs for workers with psychiatric disabilities in the secondary labor market: • Low salary. • Temporary. • Part-time.

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