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The Employment Effect of the Disability Discrimination Act: Evidence from the Health Survey for England
Author(s) -
Jones Melanie K.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2009.00449.x
Subject(s) - robustness (evolution) , demographic economics , test (biology) , survey data collection , psychology , economics , labour economics , business , statistics , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , biology , gene , mathematics
This paper uses data from the Health Survey for England between 1991 and 2004 to examine the labour market impact of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA). Consistent with previous evidence in the UK and the USA, this study finds no evidence of a positive employment effect of the introduction of the DDA. Sensitivity analysis, using the small firm exemption of the DDA, and controlling for changes in the composition of the disabled, is used to test the robustness of the main results.