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El empleo de las personas con discapacidad en la sociedad de la información: desafíos para los nuevos estados miembros/The employment of people with disabilities in the Information...
CUERVO, VICENTE; ROSALÍA, MARÍA; MENÉNDEZ, LÓPEZ; … - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 25 (2007) Abril, pp. 429-446
discapacidad y en el uso que hacen de estas tecnologías en el área de los países de la ampliación. The first priority of the … enlarged Europe is to raise new member states’ living standards towards those of the other Union countries. In this context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005549525
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The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK: Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?
Bell, David; Heitmueller, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822950
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Hiring Workers with Disabilities when a Quota Requirement Exists: The relevance of firm’s size
Malo, Miguel A.; Pagan, Ricardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We evaluate the impact of a mandatory quota of workers with disabilities using a sharp regression discontinuity design. We use data from a panel of Spanish firms where there is a mandatory quota of 2 per cent for firms with 50 or more workers. Non-parametric estimations show that strictly beyond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260190
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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
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The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK : Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?
Bell, David N.F.; Heitmüller, Axel - 2005
consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274212
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Wage Subsidies and Hiring Chances for the Disabled: Some Causal Evidence
Baert, Stijn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082350
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Wage Subsidies and Hiring Chances for the Disabled: Some Causal Evidence
BAERT, STIJN - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083088
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Do stronger employment discrimination protections decrease reliance on social security disability insurance? Evidence from the U.S. social security reforms
Button, Patrick; Khan, Mashfiqur R. - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389752
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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 - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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/10004973967
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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 - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 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/10004976989