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Disability employment quotas : effects of laws and nudges
Duryea, Suzanne; Martínez Alvear, Claudia; Smith, Raimundo - 2024
We study the effects of a new 1% employment quota enacted in Chile in 2018 using anonymized administrative data on monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-level difference-in-difference results show a 15-20% increase in the number of people with...
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The effect of the pandemic on the transition to tertiary education in Chile : a focus on students with disabilities
Contreras, M. Ignacia; Duryea, Suzanne; Martínez … - 2023
Using a rich set of administrative data, we study the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transition to tertiary education for students with disabilities in Chile. Enrollment rates in primary and secondary education in Chile differ by less than 2 percentage points for students with or without...
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Living standards of working-age disability benefits recipients in the UK
Cribb, Jonathan; Karjalainen, Heidi; Waters, Tom - 2022
We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work status) has gone through a significant transformation since...
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The labor market effects of disability benefits loss
Bíró, Anikó; Hornok, Cecília; Krekó, Judit; Prinz, … - 2023
Disability benefits provide social insurance against the risk of losing working capacity, as well as an important source of income for individuals with disabilities. They are also costly and tend to reduce labor supply. Although spending can be contained by careful targeting, correcting past...
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Enforcement spillovers under different networks : the case of quotas for persons with disabilities in Brazil
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Gagete-Miranda, Jessica - 2024
This study examines labor law enforcement spillovers in Brazil's highly informal economy, focusing on disability quota enforcement for formal firms. New inspection procedures increased compliance through heightened inspections and fines, boosting disability hiring. We investigate spillover...
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Can helping the sick hurt the able? : incentives, information and disruption in a disability-related welfare reform
Bagaria, Nitika; Petrongolo, Barbara; Van Reenen, John - 2015
Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that integrated disability benefits with unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job...
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Labour regulations and growth of manufacturing and employment in India : balancing protection and flexibility
Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2015
The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary … changes in the conditions of competition in international markets. The regulations in India that impinge on labour flexibility …
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Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1970 and labour market flexibility : an exploratory assessment of contract labour use in India's formal manufacturing
Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; Singh, Jaivir - 2015
One particularly significant piece of labour legislation in India is the Contract Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act … referred to as 'contract' labour in India. This paper seeks to examine this Act and its implication for manufacturing … employment in India. While empirical evidence seems to indicate the presence of large number of 'contract' workers in the Indian …
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Law, skills and the creation of jobs as "contract" work in India : exploring survey data to make inferences for labour law reform
Singh, Jaivir; Das, Deb Kusum; Choudhury, Homagni; … - 2016
The paper begins with a discussion of Indian labour law and the increasing use of "contract labour" in Indian formal manufacturing. We question the widespread perception that employment of contract labour provides flexibility to employers in terms of adjustment in response to demand and...
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Creating Jobs in India's Organised Manufacturing Sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2014
has eluded India. Using data from the An nual Survey of Industries, we examine the factors holding back the growth of …
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