Equal Education, Unequal Jobs: College and University Students with Disabilities.

The proportion of students at postsecondary institutions reporting a permanent disability has greatly increased in recent decades. Using a nationally representative sample of Canadian students who were offered government student financial aid, we use propensity score matching models to compare the educational and labour market outcomes of students with permanent disabilities to those without such disabilities. Our results indicate that a student with a permanent disability is as likely to complete their postsecondary education as one without a permanent disability. Despite similar success at school, their labour market outcomes after completing their education are distinctly different. Students with permanent disabilities are less likely to participate in the labour market and more likely to be unemployed. We summarize available policy options to address this issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]