We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right- wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …

among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated increase in employment was merely 6.8 percentage points among men and 10 ….1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …