Unemployment Duration and Disability:Evidence from Portugal

In this paper we use Portuguese data on individual (multiple) unemployment spells and applysemi-parametric duration models to investigate the effects of different types of disabilities on(re)employment probabilities. We find that disabled persons with muscular, skeletal, geriatricand sensorial problems experience the longest unemployment spells. Organic (blind, deaf orlinguistic) disabilities also significantly reduce the probability of finding a job, while intellectualor psychological disabilities do not...