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Disadvantaged Workers

Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies

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Editors:
  1. Miguel Ángel Malo

    1. Dept. of Economics and Economic History, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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  2. Dario Sciulli

    1. Dept. of Economic Studies, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti, Pescara, Italy

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  • Provides empirical evidence focusing on recent labour market data
  • Special emphasis on the recent EU definition of social exclusion
  • Helps policy makers in designing policies for disadvantaged workers
  • Includes intriguing results on the impact of the current economic crisis on the labour market for disadvantaged workers

Part of the book series: AIEL Series in Labour Economics (AIEL)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Miguel Ángel Malo, Dario Sciulli
    Pages 1-7

  3. People with disabilities in the Labour Market

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Disability and Work: Empirical Evidence from Italy

      • Tindara Addabbo, Jaya Krishnakumar, Elena Sarti
      Pages 11-29

    3. The Dynamics of Disability and Labour Force Participation in Italy

      • Massimiliano Agovino, Giuliana Parodi, Dario Sciulli
      Pages 31-48

    4. Hiring Workers with Disabilities When a Quota Requirement Exists: The Relevance of Firm’s Size

      • Miguel Ángel Malo, Ricardo Pagán
      Pages 49-63

    5. Sheltered Employment Centres and Labour Market Integration of People with Disabilities: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation Using Spanish Data

      • Begoña Cueto, Vanesa Rodríguez
      Pages 65-91

  4. Young Workers in the Labour Market

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Temporary Contracts and Young Workers’ Job Satisfaction in Italy

      • G. S. F. Bruno, F. E. Caroleo, O. Dessy
      Pages 95-120

    3. Youth Unemployment: Key Determinants and the Impact of Crises

      • G. S. F. Bruno, M. T. Choudhry, E. Marelli, M. Signorelli
      Pages 121-148

    4. Characteristics of Parents and the Unemployment Duration of their Offspring. Evidence from Italy

      • Salvatore Farace, Fernanda Mazzotta, Lavinia Parisi
      Pages 149-179

    5. Youth Employment in Africa: New Evidence and Policies from Swaziland

      • Zuzana Brixiová, Thierry Kangoye
      Pages 181-202

    6. Understanding the Drivers of the Youth Labour Market in Kenya

      • Verónica Escudero, Elva López Mourelo
      Pages 203-228

  5. Women, Migrants and Long-Term Unemployed

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Disadvantaged Workers in the Italian Labour Market: Gender and Regional Gaps

      • Maurizio Baussola, Chiara Mussida
      Pages 231-256

    3. Can the Crisis be an Opportunity for Women?

      • Emanuela Ghignoni, Alina Verashchagina
      Pages 257-276

    4. Differences Between Spanish and Foreign Workers in the Duration of Workplace Accident Leave: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis

      • Ángel L. Martín-Román, Alfonso Moral
      Pages 277-295

    5. Duration of Joblessness and Long-term Unemployment: Is Duration as Long as Official Statistics Say?

      • José María Arranz, Carlos García-Serrano
      Pages 297-320
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About this book

This book includes empirical contributions focusing on disadvantaged workers. According to the European Commission’s definition, disadvantaged workers include categories of workers with difficulties entering the labour market without assistance and hence, requiring the application of public measures aimed at improving their employment opportunities. In addition to the labour market perspective, this is also relevant in terms of social cohesion, which is one of the central objectives of the European Union and of its Member States. This work deals with the most relevant groups of disadvantaged workers, namely disabled workers, young workers, women living in depressed areas, migrants in the labour market and the long-term unemployed, and analyses the situation in the Italian, Spanish and some African labour markets. The determinants of disadvantage in the labour market are investigated, highlighting both the role of supply variables, including structural factors and the weakness on the demand side, the role of the economic crisis and the ineffectiveness of some labour policies. A complex framework emerges in which disadvantaged groups may share common problems, both in terms of integration into the labour market and in terms of working conditions, but often require group-specific policies, taking into account their intergroup heterogeneity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Economics and Economic History, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Miguel Ángel Malo

  • Dept. of Economic Studies, University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti, Pescara, Italy

    Dario Sciulli

About the editors

Miguel Á. Malo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Salamanca (Spain). He has been a visiting scholar at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK), European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (University of Essex, UK), National Bureau for Economic Research (USA) and the International Labour Organization (Switzerland). His main research interests are employment policies, labour market segmentation, employment protection legislation and employment of people with disabilities. From 2000 to 2002, he was the Spanish expert about employment of people with disabilities in the corresponding international network created by the European Commission. In 2007, he provided expert advice to the Spanish Ministry of Employment to design a new strategy to promote the employment for people with disabilities. During 2013, he has been on leave working as a Senior Economist at the International Labour Organization.

Dario Sciulli (Ph.D. Tor Vergata University, Rome 2006) is assistant professor of economic policy at the Department of Economic Studies, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He has held visiting positions at the Universidad Carlos III Madrid (Spain), University of York (UK) and VU University Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He has held post-doc positions at the University of the Azores (Portugal) and University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). His research interests include labour economics, child development and later outcomes, economics of disability and policy evaluation. He is a member of the executive committee of AIEL (the Italian Association of Labour Economists).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Disadvantaged Workers

  • Book Subtitle: Empirical Evidence and Labour Policies

  • Editors: Miguel Ángel Malo, Dario Sciulli

  • Series Title: AIEL Series in Labour Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04376-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04375-3Published: 07 April 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38124-4Published: 24 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04376-0Published: 26 March 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1863-916X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-9340

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 320

  • Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Labor Economics, Economic Policy, Social Policy

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