Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/328218 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 18088
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The COVID-19 health pandemic had a profound impact on labour markets worldwide, disproportionately affecting subgroups of the population, including individuals with disabilities. Despite extensive research on the broader impacts of the pandemic, there remains a notable gap in the literature concerning the labour market impact of COVID-19 on people with disabilities. This paper attempts to fill this gap for Ireland by examining the impact of the pandemic on disabled peoples' unemployment status. The paper finds that individuals with disabilities were 2.7 percentage points more likely to be unemployed during the pandemic compared to those without disabilities. Even in 2023, people with disabilities remained more likely to be unemployed. However, our year interaction models revealed that the impact of disabilities on unemployment risk remained largely stable during and after the pandemic.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
disabilities
unemployment risk
Ireland
OLS
JEL: 
J01
J14
J18
J64
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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