Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51920 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5548
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western economies, hardly responding to better macroeconomic conditions and favourable anti-discrimination legislation and interventions. Continuing health and productivity improvements in the general population are leaving people with disabilities behind, unable to play their role and have their share in the increasing productive capacity of the economy. This paper combines dynamic panel econometric estimation with longitudinal data from Australia to show that vocational education has a considerable and long lasting positive effect on the employment participation and productivity of people with disabilities.
Subjects: 
employment
disabilities
productivity
vocational training
dynamic panel regression
JEL: 
J14
I19
I29
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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