Wage subsidies and hiring chances for the disabled: Some causal evidence

BAERT, Stijn

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July 2014
34 p

The effectiveness of wage subsidies as a policy instrument to integrate disabled individuals into the labour market was investigated. To identify causal effects, a field experiment was carried out in Belgium. Two applications for male graduates, identical except that one reveals a disability, were sent out to 768 vacancies in the Flemish labour market.

 

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8318

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