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consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …
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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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We investigate the duration of time until the first work resumption for a cohort of people who receive disability … insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of … work experience, and the level of disability. As a result, different people will face different benefit schedules and hence …
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Among countries with comparable levels of income, India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks …
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of operation of the Disability Discrimination Act. Significant heterogeneity within the disabled group is identified …Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results …: those suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions suggest the ?penalty …
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In this paper, we present both a theoretical and an empirical model in order to identify the effects of disability on …) but this reduction is more than offset when we take into account both the disability benefits and the wage. As predicted …
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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We consider a model of prejudice-driven discrimination, where the advantaged 'tall' discriminate against the … disadvantaged 'short'. We employ an egalitarian social welfare function to compare anti-discrimination legal rules with a non …
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Discrimination in recruitment decisions is well documented. Anonymous job applications may reduce discriminatory …
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Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications … have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended …
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