An evaluation of the 1987 French Disabled Workers Act: Better paying than hiring

Barnay, Thomas; Duguet, Emmanuel; Le Clainche, Christine; Videau, Yann

Document type :

Pré-publication ou Document de travail

Title :

An evaluation of the 1987 French Disabled Workers Act: Better paying than hiring

Author(s) :

Barnay, Thomas [Auteur]
Equipe de Recherche sur l’Utilisation des Données Individuelles en lien avec la Théorie Economique [ERUDITE]
Duguet, Emmanuel [Auteur]
Equipe de Recherche sur l’Utilisation des Données Individuelles en lien avec la Théorie Economique [ERUDITE]
Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques [TEPP]
Le Clainche, Christine [Auteur]

Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]
Centre d'études de l'emploi [CEE]
Videau, Yann [Auteur]
Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques [TEPP]
Equipe de Recherche sur l’Utilisation des Données Individuelles en lien avec la Théorie Economique [ERUDITE]

English keyword(s) :

disability
employment policy
triple difference
matching
weighting

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

English abstract : [en]

In France, the French Disabled Workers Act set up a legal quota of disabled workers in more than 20 employees companies. In order to encourage employers to better promote the employment of disabled people, this law decreed ...
Show more >In France, the French Disabled Workers Act set up a legal quota of disabled workers in more than 20 employees companies. In order to encourage employers to better promote the employment of disabled people, this law decreed financial penalties for noncompliance.The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact of this law on the employment of disabled people. We use a triple difference approach combined with dynamic exact matching and weighting methods in order to disentangle the pure effect of the legislation by controlling for both observable and unobservable correlated heterogeneities. Using a panel data set built from the “Santé et itinéraire professionnel” (lit. “Health and Labour Market Histories”) survey conducted in France in 2006-2007, we investigate whether disabilities have a significant impact on people’s employment, by distinguishing between the public and private sectors. We compare the labour trajectories of disabled people befor and after the implementation of the law (1968-1986 vs 1988-2006). Our findings highlight a negative impact of the Disabled Workers Act on the employment of disabled people. Byenabling firms to abide by the legal employment obligation without hiring any disabled workers, this measure has probably had a counterproductive impact on the employment of disabled people. Nevertheless, this negative effect is restricted to the private sector; we find that the public sector shelters the disabled workers.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

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