We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment … Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is …, firms exactly at the quota threshold employ 0.05 (20 % in relative terms) more disabled workers than firms just below the …

labour force of healthy workers through disability insurance schemes. Two types of individuals, disabled and leisure …This paper studies the design of retirement and disability policies. It illustrates the often observed exit from the … decision. Then we introduce the possibility of testing which sorts out disabled workers from healthy but retirement …

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

this paper for the particular case of Spain, a fast growing country in the second half of the twentieth century. It is …

government. We estimate the model using 1995Q1-2013Q2 data for Spain, the rest of the Euro Area (REA) and the rest of the world … for Spanish households and firms, as well as a fall in the interest rate spread between Spain and the REA fuelled the … Spanish output boom and the persistent rise in foreign capital flows to Spain, before the global financial crisis. During and …

financial market. Banking in Spain has undergone a strong liberalization process in the last fifteen years, which has …