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This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …
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This paper examined how PWDs in the Philippines make a living and determined the factors that influenced them to select a particular labor market status and/or a source of personal income. It also analyzed the different types of work these PWDs engage in and their association with levels of...
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Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some … individuals capable of work. A model in which both a capacity and a desire for work are necessary conditions for employment is … failure to allow for it results in overestimation of the wage elasticity of employment. The accuracy of self-reported capacity …
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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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 wages. In the theoretical model we assume that the wage gap of a disabled worker depends on a permanent and a transitory productivity gap and the model predicts that the wage gap...
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market inequality to help understand the continuing earnings and employment disparities experienced by people with … apply them to examples related to intersectionality, unionisation, contingent work, and employment in times of crisis. Paid … employment is central to people's social and economic wellbeing within liberal market-based economies, making it important to …
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This paper identifies the specific external barriers to SME development in Lithuania. An analysis of 332 SME owners …
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