During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western … panel econometric estimation with longitudinal data from Australia to show that vocational education has a considerable and … long lasting positive effect on the employment participation and productivity of people with disabilities. …

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …, particularly for men. In most countries and, for both sexes, training is positively associated with public sector employment, high …

Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …

employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … formal sector. Yet the dual structure is not balanced in the same way in all three countries. Most of the self-employment …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in … monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

levels and see their participation and employment probability as adults enhanced. We show that the estimated genuine impact … of attaining an academic qualification on participation and employment is always statistically significant, in particular …

. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible … possible locking-in effects by separate estimation of in- and after-programme effects. Regarding several different programme …