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Social Indicators Research
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research 2/2017

19.11.2015

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

verfasst von: M. Agovino, A. Rapposelli

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 2/2017

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Abstract

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.
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1
Unlike hierarchical clustering, k-means clustering requires the number of resulting clusters, k, to be specified prior to analysis. Thus, it will produce k different clusters of the greatest possible distinction.
 
2
This method tends to produce compact clusters without any chain effect. As well as the single linkage method, also the complete linkage method is invariant with respect to monotonic transformations of distance (Cerioli and Zani 2007).
 
3
Other methods, both hierarchical and non-hierarchical, provide the same results as the complete linkage method.
 
4
The classification resulting from using different distance measures, such as the squared Euclidean distance, is very similar to that obtained by using the Euclidean distance.
 
5
Output data were obtained from the Ministry of Employment (Ministry of Employment 2006–2007, 2008–2009).
 
6
Secondo Rapporto sulla coesione sociale. http://​www.​istat.​it/​it/​archivio/​53075 (accessed November 16th, 2013).
 
7
Civilian disability pensions are not connected with national insurance contributions; they are paid to persons with disabilities on the basis of their physical characteristics (e.g. people affected by blindness, deafness, or other types of impairments). These pensions are also paid to people with no income or insufficient income after the age of 65 (Ministry of Employment 2006–2007, 2008–2009).
 
8
Assistenza e previdenza. http://​www.​istat.​it/​it/​assistenza-e-previdenza (accessed November 16th, 2013).
 
9
The overall equilibrium is usually adopted with reference to the theory of social capital, of which we evaluate the impact on the whole community. The partial equilibrium, always in this context, refers to a subset of the community (persons with disabilities, in our case).
 
10
In the graph analysis we normalise the data by the ratio of the observed value of each variable and its lowest level against the range of variation (difference between minimum and maximum values of each variable) (Boyle and McCarthy 1997; Mazumdar 1999; Marchante 2006; Marselli and Vannini 2006): \( Z_{ij} = \frac{{X_{ij} - \hbox{min} X_{i} }}{{\hbox{max} X_{i} - \hbox{min} X_{i} }} \), where Z denotes the normalised variables, X is the original variable, j represents the regions and i the years.
 
11
We also implemented an analysis with three clusters but the results were not satisfactory: two of the three clusters were found to have very similar values. Consequently, the analysis proves to be weakly discriminating.
 
12
Usually, in the case of non-substitutability of the basic components, it is normal to use the geometric mean (Biehl, 1991). However, the geometric mean assumes that the greatness to synthesise is multiplicative rather than additive, and gives greater weight to lower values. Besides, it cannot be computed in the presence of negative values or zero.
 
13
The higher the indicator value, the higher the quality of work.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Regional Performance Trends in Providing Employment for Persons with Disabilities: Evidence from Italy
verfasst von
M. Agovino
A. Rapposelli
Publikationsdatum
19.11.2015
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-1186-0

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