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"We study the impact of the Austrian Employment Act for the Disabled which grants extended employment protection, requires a hiring quota for firms, and subsidizes the employment of severely disabled (SD) workers. Using a large sample of eligible individuals we compare workers before and after...
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to 57.2 for women. Using administrative data on the universe of Austrian private-sector employees, the results from the … percentage points among affected women. The decline in retirement was accompanied by a sizeable increase in employment of 7 … percentage points among men and 10 percentage points among women, but had also important spillover effects into the unemployment …
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transition rate to jobs increases for Swiss women but not for Swiss men. However, the job hazard rate is strongly reduced during … durations for women. (ii) Once the unemployment spell approaches the expiration of unconditional benefit entitlement the job …-hazard rate increases strongly, both for women and for men. (iii) There are important selectivity effects for Swiss females, but …
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Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women … among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10 ….1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible …
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