We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

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

affecting the quantity and quality of employment on the demand side of the economy; and c) factors affecting processes of … 'unemployment' and 'poverty' traps, geographical mobility of residence and employment pay discrimination, the 'discouraged worker …

This paper studies the design of retirement and disability policies. It illustrates the often observed exit from the … labour force of healthy workers through disability insurance schemes. Two types of individuals, disabled and leisure …

countries. In Italy they enhance the efficiency of home activities, with also positive long term effect on output and employment … countries have essentially scale effects which eventually trickle down on employment and productivity at home. …

total factor productivity and output. It also finds no significant effects on employment. These results support the view …

that short-term training programmes on average increase their participants' employment perspectives and that all programmes …

sample of countries. We estimate the impact of liberalization on production, employment, firm entry, capital accumulation … entry of firms, higher capital accumulation, and an expansion in total employment. By contrast, we do not detect any effect …