2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Empirical Analysis on Education and Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities in Japan
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22730244
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Economic policy
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Science (2012-2013)
Hitotsubashi University (2011)
National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities (2010) |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 聴覚障害教育 / 障害者雇用政策 / ミクロ計量経済学 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study examines the effect of employment quota systems for disabled people on their employment. By using official data pertaining to Japan, we show that a levy-grant scheme increases the employment of disabled workers in Japan's manufacturing industry. In addition, we use the increase in the number of disabled workers by the quota system as an instrumental variable to evaluate the impact of disability employment on a firm's profit rate. In a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, our results suggest that an increase in the number of disabled workers does not necessarily decrease firms' profit rate, which is in contrast to the results of ordinary least squares regression that suggest negative relationships between a firm's profit rate and the number of disabled workers.
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