Could the industrialization reduce social inequalities? We use the rise of office employment in the early 20th century … new office technology. The beneficial employment effect is not distributed equally across gender but is restricted to …

The employment of people with disabilities has received significant attention, but little is known about how unions … affect their employment experiences. To address this, we analyze monthly U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS) data from 2009 …. Exploratory data reveal that both union coverage and disability status increase the likelihood of requesting accommodations …

-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by … spousal disability which is consistent with the existence of other-regarding preferences within couples. The magnitude of … effects suggests that spousal disability is about one quarter to one half as harmful as individual disability with larger …

In this paper, I contrast the effects of individual and spousal disability on subjective wellbeing and labor supply … their propensity to work when they or their partner become disabled. The effects of spousal disability are economically … large. I find no evidence for hours and wage adjustments by spousal disability, although there are wage effects of …

disability status are examined. About 60% of employees report working more than they would wish with the mean difference of -3 … difference. We find no effects of legal disability status on the disequilibrium which we interpret as a reflection of stronger …

We study the effects of a new 1% employment quota enacted in Chile in 2018 using anonymized administrative data on … monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-level difference-in-difference results show … the employment effects occur through the relabeling of existing workers as workers with disabilities, and the remainder …

reemployment of persons drawing disability insurance (DI) benefits. A private company was commissioned to implement the program … specification issues. An interesting policy implication is that it seems possible to enhance the employment prospects of disabled …

disabilities, in terms of employment and disability retirement. By using inverse probability weighting applied to rich Swedish … through the disability insurance program was somewhat less common among participants. Moreover, using a broader employment … work capacity, and disability retirement is increasing. Despite this, studies on the effects of policies aimed at enhancing …

penalties for retiring before the FRA. This cut to retirement benefits caused spillover effects on Social Security Disability … Insurance (SSDI) applications and receipt by making SSDI relatively more generous. We explore if stronger disability and age … disability, where only a medically diagnosed condition is required to be covered under state law, significantly reduces SSDI …

-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus … year of birth, the incidence of any disability, locomotor disability and polio-related disability declined by 61.4%, 57 …