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Labour market disadvantage amongst disabled people: a longitudinal perspective
Rigg, John A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
progression of disabled people with respect to differences in age, education, occupation and disability severity. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126083
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Labour Market Disadvantage amongst Disabled People:A Longitudinal Perspective
Rigg, John - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005
Considerable cross-sectional evidence has highlighted the lower employmentrates and earnings amongst disabled people in Britain. But very little is knownabout the progression of disabled people in employment. This study uses datafrom the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to examine the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354025
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Disability and labor market outcomes : disability is associated with labor market disadvantage : recent evidence points to a causal relationship
Jones, Melanie - 2016
In Europe, about one in eight people of working age report having a disability; that is, the presence of a long … discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry into work, disability is associated with substantial and enduring employment … social and economic costs of disability disadvantage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456243
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Disability and labor market performance
Collischon, Matthias; Hiesinger, Karolin; Pohlan, Laura - 2023
This paper analyzes the individual-level effects of disability onset on labor market outcomes using novel … impacts on employment and wages. One important mechanism is transitions to nonemployment after disability onset: newly … of disability onset are more pronounced for severely disabled, older and low-skilled individuals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250641
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Job spells in an emerging market: Evidence from apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa
Hill, Robert; Lilenstein, Kezia; Thornton, Amy - 2020
Few studies exist on job duration in developing labour markets - an important omission both in our understanding of such markets and for the job duration literature, which is mainly based on developed-country case studies, which differ in structural ways. The main reason for this is likely data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424014
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Why Are There So Few Women in Executive Positions? An Analysis of Gender Differences in the Life-Cycle of Executive Employment
Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy J. - 2015
"Glass ceilings" and "sticky floors" are typical explanations for the low representation of women in top executive positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of executive employment, which allows for a full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500296
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Why are there so few women in executive positions? : an analysis of gender differences in the life-cycle of executive employment
Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy - 2015
"Glass ceilings" and "sticky floors" are typical explanations for the low representation of women in top executive positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of executive employment, which allows for a full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472498
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Job spells in an emerging market : evidence from apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa
Hill, Robert; Lilenstein, Kezia; Thornton, Amy - 2020
Few studies exist on job duration in developing labour markets - an important omission both in our understanding of such markets and for the job duration literature, which is mainly based on developed-country case studies, which differ in structural ways. The main reason for this is likely data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181122
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Why Are There So Few Women in Executive Positions? An Analysis of Gender Differences in the Life-Cycle of Executive Employment
Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
"Glass ceilings" and "sticky floors" are typical explanations for the low representation of women in top executive positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of executive employment, which allows for a full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149772
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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is strictly enforced by non-compliance taxation. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310692