The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) recognize the need to understand the link between disability and poverty. In fact this has become one of the key issues in the subject of poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific...

In an effort to complement the 2008 disability survey conducted in Metro Manila, the University of Tokyo and the Philippine Institute for Development Studies collaborated to undertake a similar study in a rural area. The survey was conducted in Rosario, Batangas in 2010, where 106 PWDs from 31...

Addressing gender gaps is a major development objective anywhere in the world. This paper aims to illustrate that this is far more critical in the presence of another social layer - disability. Among persons with disability (PWDs), the gap between men and women are more distinct, their...

The article describes (concentrates on the description of) the employment development and social problems related to labour market situation in Poland during the transition period (before the EU accession). It consists of four parts. The first gives an overview of basic tendencies in labour...

Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid growth in program costs; greater awareness that people with impairments are able and willing to...

Der Einsatz von Gutscheinen in der Bildungs- und Sozialpolitik wird in den Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften kontrovers diskutiert. Eine pauschale Bewertung von Gutscheinmodellen ist nicht möglich. Ihre Effizienz und Effektivität hängt stark von den Eigenschaften der geförderten Güter...

Jugendliche mit Behinderungen und funktionalen Beeinträchtigungen haben es schwer, einen Ausbildungsplatz in einem Unternehmen zu bekommen. Sie weisen spezifischen Förderbedarf auf. Dem kommt der Gesetzgeber durch die Zuweisung von Mitteln an die Berufsbildungswerke (BBW) nach, die den...

In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...

We study the impact of the Austrian Employment Act for the Disabled which grants extended employment protection, requires a hiring quota for firms, and subsidizes the employment of severely disabled (SD) workers. Using a large sample of eligible individuals we compare workers before and after...

We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...