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Disability and life satisfaction in Italy
Addabbo, Tindara; Sarti, Elena; Sciulli, Dario - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 2014
survey. Estimation results show that household structure, health and disability status affect life satisfaction more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010925510
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Disability, life satisfaction and social interaction in Italy
Addabbo, Tindara; Sarti, Elena; Sciulli, Dario - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2013
This paper will focus on the living conditions of disabled people with different degree of limitations as regards to daily activities. In a first step of analysis we focus on the predictors of four specific domains of life satisfaction. In a second step, we attempt to define the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929891
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Disability and low income persistence in Italian households
Parodi, Giuliana; Sciulli, Dario - In: International Journal of Manpower 33 (2012) June, pp. 9-26
limited. Alternative definitions of disability are considered. The probability of low income is estimated adopting dynamic …. Originality/value – Not much is known about how disability affects the conditions of households with disabled members. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552961
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Unemployment Duration and Disability: Evidence from Portugal
Sciulli, Dario; Menezes, Antonio; Vieira, José - In: Journal of Labor Research 33 (2012) 1, pp. 21-48
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010845879
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Disability, life satisfaction and social interaction in Italy
Addabbo, Tindara; Sarti, Elena; Sciulli, Dario - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2013
This paper will focus on the living conditions of disabled people with different degree of limitations as regards to daily activities. In a first step of analysis we focus on the predictors of four specific domains of life satisfaction. In a second step, we attempt to define the different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787875
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Hiring Workers with Disabilities when a Quota Requirement Exists: The Relevance of Firm’s Size
Malo, Miguel Ángel; Pagan, Ricardo - In: Disadvantaged Workers
We evaluate the impact of a mandatory quota of workers with disabilities using a sharp regression discontinuity design. We use data from a panel of Spanish firms where there is a mandatory quota of 2 % for firms with 50 or more workers. Non-parametric estimations show that strictly beyond the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774669
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Disability and Work: Empirical Evidence from Italy
Addabbo, Tindara; Krishnakumar, Jaya; Sarti, Elena - In: Disadvantaged Workers
This essay is an empirical study of the working conditions of people with disability using Italian microdata collected …, allowing us to consider various conversion factors including those associated with different types of disability for explaining … placement of disabled people. We find that the impact of disability is different according to the type of disability. Among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774673
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Sheltered Employment Centres and Labour Market Integration of People with Disabilities: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation Using Spanish Data
Cueto, Begoña; Rodriguez, Vanesa - In: Disadvantaged Workers
In this paper, we apply propensity score matching in order to evaluate whether sheltered employment centres improve integration of people with disabilities into ordinary firms or not. We define as a control group those disabled workers never enrolled in these centres before the last employment...
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The Dynamics of Disability and Labour Force Participation in Italy
Agovino, Massimiliano; Parodi, Giuliana; Sciulli, Dario - In: Disadvantaged Workers
This paper investigates the effect of disability on labour force participation in Italy. Using information on … disability status that increases in seriousness (from 6.5 % to 10.7 %) in the case of labour force participation. Additionally …, past disability status decreases the probability of current employment. Moreover, we find evidence that labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010774677
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Disability and Low Income Persistence in Italian Households
Parodi, Giuliana; Sciulli, Dario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We apply dynamic probit models allowing for unobserved heterogeneity and endogenous initial conditions to IT-SILC data to investigate the low income persistence of households with disabled members. We find that their probability of being in a low income state is higher when compared with...
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