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The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK: Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?

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Bell, David (University of Stirling)
Heitmueller, Axel () (London Business School and IZA Bonn)

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The enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 triggered a substantial academic debate about its consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment provision of the 1996 Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) in Britain has received little attention. This paper provides robust evidence that, similar to the ADA in the US, the DDA has had no impact on the employment rate of disabled people or possibly worsened it. Possible reasons for this are low take-up of financial support, low levels of general awareness about the Act among disabled people and employers, and limited knowledge about the true costs of required adjustments.

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Keywords: disability; employment; difference-in-difference; discrimination;

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J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
J78 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Public Policy (including comparable worth)

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  1. Daron Acemoglu & Joshua Angrist, 1998. "Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act," Working papers 98-13, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Economics.
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  2. Christine Jolls & J.J. Prescott, 2004. "Disaggregating Employment Protection: The Case of Disability Discrimination," NBER Working Papers 10740, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Thomas DeLeire, 2000. "The Wage and Employment Effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act," Working Papers 0008, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Paul Oyer & Scott Schaefer, . "Layoffs and Litigation," IPR working papers 98-34, Institute for Policy Resarch at Northwestern University.
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  1. Jones, Melanie K. & Latreille, Paul L. & Sloane, Peter J., 2007. "Disability and Work: A Review of the British Evidence," Estudios de Economía Aplicada, Estudios de Economía Aplicada, vol. 25, pages 473-498, Abril. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Rafael Lalive & Jean-Philippe Wuellrich & Josef Zweimüller, 2009. "Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach," NRN working papers 2009-11, The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Brigitte Humer & Jean-Philippe Wuellrich & Josef Zweimüller, 2007. "Integrating Severely Disabled Individuals into the Labour Market: The Austrian Case," IZA Discussion Papers 2649, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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