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This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … segregation. However, levels of discrimination differ considerably among occupations, varying from no evidence of disability …
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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities …
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Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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Canadian disability policy has come a long way in the past century. However, in contrast with the evidence that … disability is not permanent for most, current disability support programs still carry the old static view of permanent disability … force exposure is crucial for better return-to-work outcomes for persons with a disability. Without labour force exposure …
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This study provides insight in the responsiveness of disabled workers to financial incentives, using administrative individual data from the Netherlands from 2006 to 2013. We focus on workers receiving partial DI benefits and with substantial residual work capacities that can be exploited. After...
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This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly disadvantaged group whose labor market performances have not been well studied or documented. Using a nonparametric approach, we uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns...
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. Exploratory data reveal that both union coverage and disability status increase the likelihood of requesting accommodations …
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-disabled people: that is, having a disability is a greater disadvantage for less educated than for better educated people. We provide … disabilities is generally less dependent on their educational attainment. Overall, we estimate that 20% of the disability …
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. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a barrier for seniors as they try to increase their work lives through the … common practice of "bridge" jobs is also presented. After discussing the evidence that measures age discrimination, economics … and legal research that seeks to determine to what extent the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act and state …
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-based discrimination. The discrimination we find is rather due to conservatism in updating beliefs. This conservatism is more pronounced in … job promotion ladder: Few rounds of moderate discrimination virtually eliminate females in higher positions …
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