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Why Are There So Few Women in Executive Positions? An Analysis of Gender Differences in the Life-Cycle of Executive Employment

Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy J. - 2015

"Glass ceilings" and "sticky floors" are typical explanations for the low representation of women in top executive positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of executive employment, which allows for a full...

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Job spells in an emerging market: Evidence from apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa

Hill, Robert; Lilenstein, Kezia; Thornton, Amy - 2020

Few studies exist on job duration in developing labour markets - an important omission both in our understanding of such markets and for the job duration literature, which is mainly based on developed-country case studies, which differ in structural ways. The main reason for this is likely data...

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To include or not to include? Firm employment decisions with respect to the German disabled worker quota

Hiesinger, Karolin - 2022

This paper analyzes whether financial disincentives affect firm demand for disabled workers. In Germany, firms must pay a noncompliance fine if they do not meet their legal quota for disabled workers. I exploit a threshold in this quota: Firms with fewer than 40 employees are required to employ...

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Telework during the Pandemic: Patterns, Challenges, and Opportunities for People with Disabilities

Ameri, Mason; Kruse, Douglas L.; Park, So Ri; Rodgers, … - 2022

and non-telework jobs. Disability, employment, telework, pandemic, flexibility. …

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Disability and Labor Market Performance

Collischon, Matthias; Hiesinger, Karolin; Pohlan, Laura - 2023

This paper analyzes the individual-level effects of disability onset on labor market outcomes using novel … impacts on employment and wages. One important mechanism is transitions to nonemployment after disability onset: newly … of disability onset are more pronounced for severely disabled, older and low-skilled individuals. …

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Estimating the effects of the ADA Amendments Act on the hiring and termination of individuals with disabilities, using new disability categorizations

Button, Patrick; Armour, Philip; Hollands, Simon - 2023

Disability discrimination laws are often used to potentially increase employment for individuals with disabilities …. However, legal theory and empirical economics research do not provide conclusive answers as to how expansions in disability … Participation (SIPP). We also use the SIPP to develop additional measures and categorizations of disability based on whether the …

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Disability employment quotas: Effects of laws and nudges

Duryea, Suzanne; Martínez Alvear, Claudia; Smith, Raimundo - 2024

monthly employer-employee linkages and disability certification records. Our firm-level difference-in-difference results show …

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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 …

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Investigating Exploitation and Productivity in Explaining the Disability Wage Penalty

Saloniki, Eirini-Christina - 2014

Work, 1996). In addition, legislation (Disability Discrimination Act, 1995) prohibits discrimination hence firms are not …

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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...

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