Wage Subsidies and Hiring Chances for the Disabled: Some Causal Evidence

Stijn Baert

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: We evaluate the effectiveness of wage subsidies as a policy instrument to integrate disabled individuals into the labour market. To identify causal effects, we conduct a large-scale field experiment in Belgium. Our results show that the likelihood of a disabled candidate receiving a positive response to a job application is not positively influenced by revealing entitlement to the Flemish Supporting Subsidy.

Keywords: labour market policy evaluation; wage subsidies; disability; discrimination. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I38 J14 J78 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2014-07
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Journal Article: Wage subsidies and hiring chances for the disabled: some causal evidence (2016)
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