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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 …
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The problem of disability is perceived as one of the most serious social issues faced by the contemporary society. The … number of people with disability is consistently rising for a variety of reasons, including the aging of the population. Data … on disability are collected through numerous statistical surveys, among which censuses are the most wide-scale ones. In …
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impacts on employment and wages. One important mechanism is transitions to nonemployment after disability onset: newly …This paper analyzes the individual-level effects of disability onset on labor market outcomes using novel … points after five years relative to that of the control group. For those who stay in employment, working part-time and …
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This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of … disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field … experiment in which approximately 2,000 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish …
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. Accurately gauging the unmet need is a first step in response. Disability is commonly measured by documenting people's capacity …. Countries may improve outcomes by targeting interventions to vulnerable groups. Comparative cross-country data on disability …
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Disability discrimination laws are often used to potentially increase employment for individuals with disabilities …. However, legal theory and empirical economics research do not provide conclusive answers as to how expansions in disability … ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) on employment transitions: hirings and terminations for individuals with disabilities relative …
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We evaluate the effectiveness of wage subsidies as a policy instrument to integrate disabled individuals into the labour market. To identify causal effects, we conduct a large-scale field experiment in Belgium. Our results show that the likelihood of a disabled candidate receiving a positive...
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proposed methodology is then used to identify whether people misreport their disability status using data from the British … disability. …
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job losers with disabilities not returning to employment but instead becoming disability retirees. Although the earnings …
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-pationally disabled by the Public Employment Service. In this study we have investi-gated the determinants of being classified as … occupationally disabled by the PES. Simi-lar to the studies on disability retirement and self-reported disability we find that men …
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