Institutional Rules, Labour Demand and Disability Programme Participation

Disability and Labour Market Outcomes

Disability and Labour Force Participation in Ireland BRENDA GANNON and BRIAN NOLAN

The extent and nature of participation in the labour market by persons affected by disability has a multitude of direct and indirect effects on their living standards and quality of life, and so is a critical area for investigation and policy concern. This paper seeks to quantify the effects of disability on labour force participation in Ireland for the first time. Using data from the Living in...

A dynamic analysis of disability and labour force participation in Ireland 1995-2000.

This paper aims to analyse the effect of disability on participation in the labour force, using the Irish component of the European Community Household Panel Survey 1995-2000. A range of panel models are considered, but to allow for any unobserved influences or state dependence in labour force participation, our preferred model is a dynamic panel model. We show how the estimates of current disa...

Indicators of Labour Demand

There are several indicators of labour demand that can be used to assess labour market conditions and as inputs into forecasts of employment growth. These include measures of job vacancies, job advertisements and business surveys of employment intentions. Over the past year, there have been pronounced declines in a number of these indicators and employment growth has been somewhat subdued. This...

Measuring the (income) effect of disability insurance generosity on labour market participation

a Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands b Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics, Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London, United Kingdom c Department of Economics, Universitat de Girona, 17071, Spain d Research Centre for Economy and Health (CRES), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Ramon T...