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Title: Hiring subsidies for people with disabilities: Do they work?
Author: Juanmartí Mestres, Arnau
Jiménez-Martín, Sergi
Vall Castelló, Judit
Keywords: Subvencions
Discapacitats
Mercat de treball
Subsidies
People with disabilities
Labor market
Issue Date: Jul-2019
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Abstract: This article evaluates the effectiveness of hiring subsidies targeted to people with disabilities. By exploiting the timing of implementation among different Spanish regions of a subsidy scheme implemented in Spain during the period 1990-2014, we employed a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the impact of the scheme on the probability of disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries of transiting to employment and on the propensity of individuals of entering the DI program. Our results show that the introduction of the subsidy scheme is in general ineffective at incentivizing transitions to employment, and in some cases it is associated with an increased propensity of transiting to DI. Furthermore, we show that an employment protection component incorporated into the subsidy scheme, consisting in the obligation for the employer to maintain the subsidized worker in employment, is associated with less transitions to permanent employment, more transitions to temporary employment and more transitions to DI, suggesting that these type of employment protection measures can have undesired effects for people with disabilities.
Note: Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-019-01030-9
It is part of: European Journal of Health Economics, 2019, vol. 20, num. 5, p. 669-689
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/155536
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-019-01030-9
ISSN: 1618-7598
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