Arbeitspapier
Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
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 that, as a result of the discontinuous nature of the noncompliance tax, firms exactly at the quota threshold employ 0.05 (20 % in relative terms) more disabled workers than firms just below the threshold { an effect that is unlikely driven by purposeful selection below the threshold. The flat rate nature of the non-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing firms passing the quota threshold react with a substantial time-lag but the magnitude of the long-run effect is similar to the one found in cross-section contrasts.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: NRN Working Paper, NRN: The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State ; No. 0911
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Demand and Supply of Labor: General
Labor Discrimination
Labor Discrimination: Public Policy
- Thema
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disability
discrimination
employment
employment quota
regression discontinuity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lalive, Rafael
Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe
Zweimüller, Josef
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State
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Linz
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Lalive, Rafael
- Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe
- Zweimüller, Josef
- Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State
Entstanden
- 2009
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