How Does Disability Affect School‐to‐Work Transitions? Evidence From a French Labour Market Integration Survey

Florian Fouquet ()
Additional contact information
Florian Fouquet: GAINS - Groupe d'Analyse des Itinéraires et des Niveaux Salariaux - UM - Le Mans Université

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the school‐to‐work transitions and early employment trajectories of young workers with disabilities. Using a survey following a cohort of French young workers exiting education in 2013 on their first 3 years on the labour market, I estimate the effect of disability on the probability of finding a (stable) job using duration models. I use several disability indicators to explore how the different definitions affect the results. Overall, I find that disability increases the duration of the transition to (stable) employment at the beginning of the career. This effect is higher when the disability is administratively recognised than when self‐reported. I also show that the gap between disabled and nondisabled workers is somewhat lower among the most educated, while I evidence no significant difference between women and men. Besides, mental disabilities appear to be more detrimental on the school‐to‐work transitions than other types of disabilities, and having multiple disabilities increases the difficulties in the access to employment.

Keywords: school-to-work transitions; labour market inequalities; duration models; disability; access to employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-05-29
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-05298607v1
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Published in Kyklos, 2025, 78 (4), pp.1358-1374. ⟨10.1111/kykl.12473⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-05298607v1/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05298607

DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12473

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().