Regional Performance Trends in Providing Employment for Persons with Disabilities: Evidence from Italy

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：M. Agovino ; A. Rapposelli
• 关键词：Persons with disabilities ; Public policy ; Non ; labour market discrimination ; Technical efficiency ; Data envelopment analysis (DEA) ; Cluster analysis
• 刊名：Social Indicators Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：130
• 期：2
• 页码：593-615
• 全文大小：
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Sociology, general; Quality of Life Research; Microeconomics; Public Health; Human Geography; Quality of Life Research;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0921
• 卷排序：130

文摘

The aim of this work is to analyse the situation of persons with disabilities in the Italian labour market, with a view to providing guidelines to promote their inclusion both in the labour market and in society. For this purpose, we propose a two-step analysis focusing on Italian regions for the period 2006–2009. In the first phase, we use the Data Envelopment Analysis method to evaluate regional efficiency in providing employment for persons with disabilities. Cluster analysis is then applied to regional efficiency scores and economic policy variables in order to identify “policy clusters of regions”. Our results show that it is necessary both to focus on the residual work ability of persons with disabilities and to develop a social integration culture on the demand side of the labour market. Moreover, a structural reform of disability benefit systems is required in order to promote a culture of social inclusion.