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An Evaluation of the 1987 French Disabled Workers Act: Better Paying than Hiring

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Author	Barnay, Thomas Duguet, Emmanuel Clainche, Christine Le Videau, Yann
Copyright Year	2016
Description	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal The French Disabled Workers Act set up a legal quota of disabled workers in more than 20 employees companies. This law decreed financial penalties for non-compliance. We evaluate the impact of this law on the employment of disabled people. We use a triple difference approach combined with dynamic exact matching and weighting methods in order to disentangle the pure effect of the legislation by controlling for both observable and unobservable correlated heterogeneities. Using a panel data set built from the "Sante et itineraire professionnel" ("Health and Labour Market Histories") survey, we investigate whether disabilities have a significant impact on people's employment, by distinguishing between the public and private sectors. We compare the labour trajectories of disabled people before and after the implementation of the law. Our findings highlight a negative impact of the Disabled Workers Act on the employment of disabled people. By enabling firms to abide by the legal employment obligation without hiring any disabled workers, this measure has probably had a counterproductive impact on the employment of disabled people. Nevertheless, this negative effect is restricted to the private sector; we find that the public sector shelters the disabled workers.
Related Links	http://www.erudite.univ-paris-est.fr/fileadmin/public/ERUDITE/erudwp/ERU-16-01-tb-ed-clc-yv.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=2723130
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.2723130
Journal	SSRN Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2016-01-27
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal Employment Policy Triple Difference
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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