Hiring subsidies for people with a disability: evidence from a small-scale social field experiment
2017
156
2
June
269-285
employment subsidy ; disabled worker ; employment service
Employment
English
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"The effectiveness of hiring subsidies for people with disabilities remains unclear due to potential free-rider, substitution and signalling effects. The authors propose a novel evaluation approach wherein it is randomly decided whether or not job applications disclose the subsidy to potential employers. Based on call-back rates for interviews, the subsidy is found to be ineffective or even counterproductive in a group of adolescents having completed their vocational training programme. However, the negative signalling effect seems to be much weaker in a group of client "
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