Unfortunately I am unfamiliar with what has been researched and cannot comment on that aspect of your question.
On a purely anecdotal basis, I've heard that where governments have tried to impose quotas, this tends to be ineffective at least in some cases. For example I've heard that some businesses will simply go ahead and pay the fine for disobedience rather than hire workers who they assume will not be productive. Or they may hire someone who is, as an example, missing a single finger or otherwise only very mildly or technically experiencing an impairment so they can meet the quota but ignore the spirit of the law by still refusing to hire people with more severe disabilities.
I realize anecdotes are not what you are looking for.
Anti-discrimination laws, at least the one in the US, does not seem to have reduced the number of unemployed disabled people that much in my country. If you're looking for comparative data for countries with different approaches to endeavoring to end work place discrimination, then I'm guessing the US National Council on Disabilities might have relevant studies on their website somewhere
http://www.ncd.gov/
Good luck,
Andrea
On Dec 16, 2010, at 5:50 AM, Matthias Leicht wrote:
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> Swiss parliament is debating another budget cuts in the rents for
> disabled people. The new reform should also bring along some incentives
> for employers to employ disabled people. Left wing politicians were
> proposing a legal obligation for employers with more than 100 employees
> to employ a percentage of disabled people. Right wing politicians fought
> against it (with success) saying that legal obligations to employ
> disabled people are contraproductive.
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> An argument I heard was that countries that do not have such a legal
> obligation have a strong anti-discriminatory law (like the UK and the
> US). Switzerland now has neither of both.
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> Did someone do research on this question or knows of research in this
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> Best regards
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