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The United Nations’ Millennium Declaration, passed by the General Assembly in September 2000, is assessed with particular attention being given to the Millennium Development Goals and associated targets outlined in the Declaration. The focus of the article is not so much on the extent to which...
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Provides a sketch of Bangladesh’s socio-economic performance in the light of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. After providing some background on these goals and on Bangladesh, this article considers trends in the incidence of poverty and hunger in Bangladesh, access to education and...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether civilian disability pensions have been used as an antipoverty … number of civilian disability pensions is not related to disability diseases, but to the unemployment rate in some areas, and … among the regressors. In discussing yjem, we stress that they reflect the number of civilian disability pensions granted …
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This paper examines the recorded incidence of disability across European countries and draws attention to the …-limited and non-work-limited disability turns out to be particularly helpful in understanding labour market outcomes. Finally …
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This paper will focus on the living conditions of disabled people with different degree of limitations as regards to daily activities. In a first step of analysis we focus on the predictors of four specific domains of life satisfaction. In a second step, we attempt to define the different...
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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 % for firms with 50 or more workers. Non-parametric estimations show that strictly beyond the...
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This essay is an empirical study of the working conditions of people with disability using Italian microdata collected …, allowing us to consider various conversion factors including those associated with different types of disability for explaining … placement of disabled people. We find that the impact of disability is different according to the type of disability. Among the …
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In this paper, we apply propensity score matching in order to evaluate whether sheltered employment centres improve integration of people with disabilities into ordinary firms or not. We define as a control group those disabled workers never enrolled in these centres before the last employment...
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This paper investigates the effect of disability on labour force participation in Italy. Using information on … disability status that increases in seriousness (from 6.5 % to 10.7 %) in the case of labour force participation. Additionally …, past disability status decreases the probability of current employment. Moreover, we find evidence that labour market …
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