Employment of disabled people in the private sector. An analysis at the level of Italian Provinces according to article 13 of law 68/1999

Rapposelli, Agnese

doi:10.1007/s11135-013-9851-3

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“…We can observe that a healthier labour market (high values of OY) matches higher efficiency scores; consequently, a healthy labour market will favour regions in improving their performance in the matching process. This result is also in line with Agovino and Rapposelli's conclusions (2012a, 2012b).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…As opposed to Agovino and Rapposelli's works (2012a, 2012b, 2013, which are based on non-parametric analysis (DEA) and deal with a single year (2005), in this study we obtain a measure of the impact of coefficients associated with regressors (SFA is a parametric analysis) and we consider both temporal and spatial dimensions (panel analysis).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The study of the functioning of this law is linked exclusively to monitoring activity and the only empirical work with parametric approach is restricted to the province of Bolzano (Orlando and Patrizio 2006), where Law 68/99 appears to have a positive effect especially in the employment of disabled people with physical impairments. Recently, other studies have been carried out on this law (Agovino and Rapposelli 2012a, 2012b, 2013, and they have provided useful information to policy-makers for economic policy actions in order to promote the integration of disabled people in the labour market. However, they also present some weaknesses, such as the investigation unit (only the province of Bolzano) for the work by Orlando and Patrizio (2006) and the investigation period (only the year 2005) for Agovino and Rapposelli's works (2012a, 2012b, 2013.…”

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Is there convergence in the performance of Italian regions in including disabled people in the labour market? A local Moran approach

Agovino

2014

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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This paper investigates the evolution of regional performance in providing employment for disabled people according to Law 68/1999 and the convergence process among Italian regions by stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) and local Moran transition probability matrix. The results show that the Central and Northern Italy regions are more efficient in the matching process between supply and demand for the employment of disabled people than Southern Italy regions. In addition, we observe the absence of intra-distribution mobility and the persistence of regional dualism (polarization), in terms of employed disabled people, among Italian regions.JEL classification: J14, J48, C23, C61

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Is there convergence in the performance of Italian regions in including disabled people in the labour market? A local Moran approach

Agovino

2014

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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“…The magnitude of these negative effects varies with impairment characteristics (e.g. type, severity and number of health problems, see Jones 2008; 2011; Berthoud 2008) and between countries, as shown in the recent literature for the UK (Kidd, Sloane and Ferko 2000; Jones, Latreille and Sloane 2006); the US (Hale, Hayghe and McNeil 1998; Hotchkiss 2004); Ireland (Gannon 2005; Gannon and Nolan 2004; Kreider 1999); Australia (Oguzoglu 2010); Italy (Agovino and Rapposelli 2014; Addabbo, Krishnakumar and Sarti 2014); Western Europe in general (Mussida and Sciulli 2015); and the developing countries (Mizunoya and Mitra 2013). Other studies have examined whether disability affects the type of employment undertaken and they demonstrate how DP are concentrated in non-standard forms of employment, in lower-skilled and lower-paid occupations (Schur, 2002; 2003; Meager and Higgins, 2011).…”

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Policies based on mandatory employment quotas for disabled workers: the case of Italy

Marchesano¹,

Garofalo

2019

Mod. Italy

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This article examines the Italian policy framework on the employment of disabled people. It discusses the strengths and limitations of Law 68 of 12 March 1999 (Regulation on the right to work of disabled people). Despite it having been enacted 16 years after being passed, Law 68/99 still faces problems in its implementation. The data analysis shows the propensity of firms to flout their obligations with regard to the recruitment of disabled people, preferring instead the risk of being sanctioned. In order for Law 68/99 to have a positive effect on the employment of disabled people, higher incentives (including subsidies for labour costs) must be introduced for employers, especially to enable the adaptation and adjustment of the workplace. With these inducements, firms would be encouraged to recruit disabled people and avoid penalties. In addition, disability management policies (still rarely implemented in the Italian workplace) and comprehensive training programmes can play a crucial role in overcoming discriminatory constraints regarding skills and physical ability, so as to increase the employability of disabled people in the labour market.

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“…Not only does it provide financial security, but a stable job allows individuals to be independent and adds to the general feeling of worth and individual fulfillment (Nord et al, 2013;Omar, 2013). Still, the literature proposes that the advantages and gains from securing satisfying employment have gone unaccomplished by individuals with a disability (Agovino and Rapposelli, 2014;Sciulli, de Menezes, and Vieira, 2012;Suarez-Balcazar et al, 2013). General employment rates for disabled people are much lower than those without a disability adding to the determinately high poverty rates for this population group (Kulkarni and Kote, 2014).…”

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Examining the Association between Disability Types and Employment Status of Cypriots with Physical Disabilities

Petasis¹

2019

Management and Economics Research Journal

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Access to employment is a standout among the most troublesome issues confronted by disabled people in Cyprus, as more than 10,000 who have appropriate qualifications remain unemployed. Worldwide estimations indicate that disabled people are either unemployed or underemployed at a much higher rate when compared to individuals with no disability. This study aimed at examining the association of the unemployment and underemployment status of disabled people with their demographic characteristics as it appears in other countries with similar cultural and legal environments. This correlational and regression study encompassed collecting primary data using 117 online questionnaire responses gathered from the 6,000 registered members with physical disabilities in related organizations in Cyprus. The study used cross-sectional survey utilizing judgment (purposive) sampling to simultaneously measure demographic variables and type of disability, toward the unemployment and/or underemployment status of disabled individuals in Cyprus, to identify possible relationships between them hence to identify if demographic variables and type of disability significantly relate to unemployment and underemployment. Results indicate that people with certain disability types have higher probabilities of being employed than others with different types of disability. People with paraplegia, quadriplegia, dystrophy, and neurological disabilities hold lower employment rates than other types of disability. People with visual disability and people with absent limb/reduced limb function rank high in both unemployment and employment rates at an equal rate. There is a significant association between the type of disability and the employment status of disabled people. The study findings relating to the employment status of disabled people in Cyprus differ to the literature findings, as it is unexpectedly much lower to what it is reported in the literature.

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Employment of disabled people in the private sector. An analysis at the level of Italian Provinces according to article 13 of law 68/1999

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

Is there convergence in the performance of Italian regions in including disabled people in the labour market? A local Moran approach

Is there convergence in the performance of Italian regions in including disabled people in the labour market? A local Moran approach

Policies based on mandatory employment quotas for disabled workers: the case of Italy

Examining the Association between Disability Types and Employment Status of Cypriots with Physical Disabilities

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