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Improving the employment rates of people with disabilities through vocational education

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Polidano, Cain - 2011

panel econometric estimation with longitudinal data from Australia to show that vocational education has a considerable and …

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The dynamic effect of disability on work and subjective wellbeing in Australia

Jones, Melanie; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J.; … - 2015

Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2013) we …

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Protecting working-age people with disabilities : experiences of four industrialized nations

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid growth in program costs; greater awareness that people with impairments are able and willing to...

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The economic status of people with disabilities and their families since the Great Recession

Bengali, Leila; Daly, Mary C.; Lofton, Olivia; … - 2021

People with disabilities face substantial barriers to sustained employment and stable, adequate income. We assess how they and their families fared during the long economic expansion that followed the Great Recession of 2007-09, using data from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) and the...

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Disability and labor market performance

Collischon, Matthias; Hiesinger, Karolin; Pohlan, Laura - 2023

This paper analyzes the individual-level effects of disability onset on labor market outcomes using novel administrative data from Germany. Combining propensity score matching techniques with an event-study design, we find lasting negative impacts on employment and wages. One important mechanism...

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The scarring effects of unemployment, low pay and skills under-utilisation in Australia compared

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J.; Zhang, Wei - 2013

Australia, focussing on differences by gender and educational pathways. It shows that skills under-utilisation also exhibits …

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Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market

Jones, Melanie; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J.; … - 2011

data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any …

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The problem of overskilling in Australia and Britain

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2007

This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …

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The effects of health and health shocks on hours worked

Cai, Lixin (contributor); Mavromaras, Kostas G. (contributor) - 2008

We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the first six waves of the HILDA survey to...

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