Are Employment Protection Laws for Persons with Disabilities Effective in a Developing Country
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4814975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Palmer (0000-0002-7015-1221), Jenny Williams (0000-0002-9084-0446, The University of Melbourne) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1057-1092 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Development and Cultural Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0079 • E-ISSN: 1539-2988 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/717279 |
| OpenAlex | W3214209323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 27 |
This paper investigates the impact of a law protecting the employment rights of persons with disabilities in Cambodia. Similar to studies in high-income countries, we find that Cambodia’s national disability law did not improve the employment situation of persons with disabilities, and may have worsened it, 4 years after implementation. The reduction in employment and hours worked of disabled persons following the law’s introduction is concentrated among employees, females, young persons, those with less than a primary school education, and those in the industrial sector. We explore supply- and demand-side explanations for the disability law’s unintended effect. On balance, the most likely explanation for the reduced work activity of disabled workers is lower demand for their labor from employers facing workplace accommodation costs and in an environment where employment quotas for disabled workers appear to have been set at nonbinding levels
Accommodation · Balance (ability) · Business · Demographic economics · Developed country · Developing country · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Labour economics · Labour law · Political science · Population · Unintended consequences · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Taxation and Compliance Studies
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |