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This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment … the employment rate at age 40 with around 21 percentage points. Our results show that early childhood conditions are …
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&H). The aim of this multidisciplinary research is twofold: to investigate factors that may influence employment of persons … with disabilities, and to examine employers' perceptions of persons with disabilities in terms of potential employment. The … show that the size of organization, in terms of the number of employees, primarily influences the likelihood of employment …
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We discuss and critique the main lines of economic research that address the economic status and behavior of the working-age population of people with disabilities. We define this population as those with physical or mental limitations that impede their daily activities or their productivity on...
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The aim of this chapter is, first, to provide the reader with basic knowledge about microfinance and how this is relevant for people with disabilities. Second, the chapter outlines the main mechanisms leading to exclusion from services and identifies strategies to improve the current situation...
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incorporated the probability of employment into the analysis or have not correctly decomposed the wage differences in light of … selectivity corrections. After estimating a two-stage model of the probability of employment followed by a wage equation for men … addition, I also perform a similar analysis to explain the differentials in employment rates between the non-disabled and …
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This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly disadvantaged group whose labor market performances have not been well studied or documented. Using a nonparametric approach, we uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns...
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Almost 10 percent of the world's population - 650 million people - live with some type of disability. A disability is any physical, sensory, or cognitive impairment that makes daily activities more difficult. Many people are born with a disability. Others acquire a disability later in life, from...
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This note takes a first look at the distribution of returns to education for people with disabilities, a particularly disadvantaged group whose labor market performances have not been well studied or documented. Using a nonparametric approach, we uncover significant heterogeneity in the returns...
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