Is there a Disability Gap in Employment Rates in Developing Countries?
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- Mizunoya, Suguru & Mitra, Sophie, 2013. "Is There a Disability Gap in Employment Rates in Developing Countries?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 28-43.
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Keywords
disability; employment; self-employment; developing countries; logit decomposition;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2013-05-05 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2013-05-05 (Labour Economics)
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