Integrating severely disabled individuals into the labour market
Subtitle: the Austrian case
By: by Brigitte Humer, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller.
Contributors: Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2649; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2649
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: People with disabilities -- Employment -- Austria.; Affirmative action programs -- Austria.
Description: "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 acquiring legal SD-status. Unsurprisingly, we find that holding SD-status is associated with lower employment and earnings. However, workers holding a job when acquiring legal SD-status have substantially better subsequent employment prospects after SD-award than before. In contrast, workers who do not hold a job at the date of SD-entry do dramatically worse after SD-award than before. This suggests that employment protection legislation places substantial firing costs on firms and has a major impact on the decisions of firms to hire disabled workers"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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