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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 …
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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 …
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The paper uses BHPS waves 1–5 (1991–5) to compare paid work participation rates of men and women. Year-on-year persistence in paid work propensities is high, but greater for men than women. Non-work persistence is higher for women. Using panel data probit regression models, the paper also...
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This paper reviews tha main trends and patterns in labour supply in Australia since the mid-1960s, and summarieses a number of themes which have emerged from research on causes of changes in labour market.
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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 …
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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 …
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that short-term training programmes on average increase their participants' employment perspectives and that all programmes …
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total factor productivity and output. It also finds no significant effects on employment. These results support the view …
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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 …
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This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...
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