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Barriers to employment returners to welfare and those who have left the welfare and employment rolls
- Authors:
- SIEGEL David I., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy Journal, 3(4), 2004, pp.19-37.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, New York
This article reports on employment barriers experienced by random samples of 200 people who have left welfare and returned between June 1999 and May 2002, and 300 who left welfare between January 1999 and December 2001 and were not on state Department of Labor employment rolls. Demographic characteristics of returners and their reported barriers to employment (transportation 32 percent, not enough pay 29 percent, no jobs in the community 26 percent, negative attitudes of co-workers 32 percent, stressful working environments 29 percent) were consistent with Wilson's (1991) article and Vartanian's work on the effects of the neighborhood environment and lack of access. Leavers, on the other hand, reported higher degrees of physical disability (53 percent), illness or injury (44 percent), and mental illness (26 percent) as barriers to employment. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Disability statistics in the developing world: a reflection on the meaning in our numbers
- Authors:
- FUJIURA Glenn T., PARK Hye J., RUTKOWSKI-KMITTA Violet
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 18(4), December 2005, pp.295-304.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
International development initiatives priority to the collection of statistical indicators yet even the most basic data on intellectual disability is lacking. In response to the recent adoption of the 'international classification of function', numerous initiatives are attempting to expand and improve the quality of disability surveillance. The authors argue that these efforts must not lose sight of the core focus and promise of disability statistics – that of advocacy and the elevation of a disability policy agenda. Throughout the analysis of the technical features of surveillance, the authors reflect on the meanings attached to disability statistics and by extension, disability itself.
The missing million: supporting disabled people into work
- Authors:
- STANLEY Kate, REGAN Sue
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 92p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
There are well over one million disabled people missing from the labour market - people who want to work but are not working. Three million people claim incapacity benefits: more than the combined total of lone parents and unemployed people claiming unemployment benefits. This issue is likely to become increasingly important as one in five adults of working age are now disabled and we have an ageing population in which older people are more likely to become disabled. The authors show current policies to be inadequate to meet the scale and importance of the challenge of supporting many more disabled people into work.
New deal 50 plus: quantitative analysis of job retention
- Author:
- GRIERSON Karen
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The aim of this analysis was to investigate job retention for New Deal 50 plus Employment Credit claimants, in the year following the end of their entitlement. Job retention is seen as an important measure of the success of the programme. The methodology involved analysing the New Deal 50 plus evaluation database to profile Employment Credit claimants’ characteristics, and the nature of job retention after the Credit ends. Job retention was measured on the basis that recipients did not return to benefit. Of the 75,000 customers who had started claiming the Employment Credit, up to June 2002; 69 per cent are male, 32 per cent disabled, 96 per cent white, 42 per cent married, and 12 per cent self employed. The majority of Employment Credit claimants fall into the 50-54 age group (59 per cent), and were previously claiming JSA (72 per cent). There are concentrations of Employment Credit claimants in northern Jobcentre Plus regions.
Disability and social participation in Europe
- Author:
- EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Eurostat
- Publisher:
- Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 81p.
- Place of publication:
- Luxembourg
Aims to respond to the growing demand by Member States and the European Commission for internationally comparative statistics on the social situation of people with disabilities. Contents: self reported disability; social participation; sources of income and benefits; satisfaction, socialising and own perception of health.
OUTSET survey of disability in the London Borough of Greenwich
- Authors:
- HUMM Jayne, HAMMOND Judith, MONTGOMERY Scott
- Publisher:
- Outset
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 89p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
The demography of disability in Greenwich, housing and everyday living.
Making the connections: the final report on transport and social exclusion
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Social Exclusion Unit
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 147p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report examines the links between social exclusion, transport and the location of services. It is particularly focused on access to those opportunities that have the most impact on life-chances, such as work, learning and healthcare. People may not be able to access services as a result of social exclusion. For example, they may be restricted in their use of transport by low incomes, or because bus routes do not run to the right places. Age and disability can also stop people driving and using public transport. Problems with transport provision and the location of services can reinforce social exclusion. They prevent people from accessing key local services or activities, such as jobs, learning, healthcare, food shopping or leisure. Problems can vary by type of area (for example urban or rural) and for different groups of people, such as disabled people, older people or families with children. The effects of road traffic also disproportionately impact on socially excluded areas and individuals through pedestrian accidents, air pollution, noise and the effect on local communities of busy roads cutting through residential areas.
Evidence for the independence of positive and negative well-being: implications for quality of life assessment
- Authors:
- WHITTINGTON Joyce E., HUPPERT Felicia A.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Health Psychology, 8(1), February 2003, pp.107-122.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Evidence is accumulating that positive mental states are more than the absence of symptoms, and may play an independent role in health outcomes. The aim of this study is to compare the characteristics and determinants of positive and negative mental states in a population sample. A novel analysis of data was undertaken from the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30) which was completed by 6,317 participants in the Health and Lifestyle Survey at Time 1 and 3,778 at Time 2, 7 years later. The authors derived a positive well-being scale (POS-GHQ) based on positive responses to the positive items of the GHQ-30, and compared it to a standard symptom measure (CGHQ). Discriminant function analyses were performed to establish which demographic, health and social variables best accounted for scores on each scale. The distributional properties of the two scales, together with the results of the discriminant analyses, demonstrate a degree of independence between positive and negative well-being. Over one third of the sample obtained either low scores on both positive and negative well-being measures or high scores on both measures. Disability and lack of social roles were important determinants of psychological symptoms, but had less influence on positive well-being. Having paid employment was an important determinant of positive well-being but had less influence on psychological symptoms. We also found that 7-year mortality was predicted more strongly by the absence of positive well-being than by the presence of psychological symptoms. These findings point to the need to include measures of positive well-being in studies of health outcomes and quality of life assessment.
Disability in Great Britain: results from the 1996/97 disability follow-up to the Family Resources Survey; a report of research ...
- Authors:
- GRUNDY Emily, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Social Security
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 178p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Survey designed to find out the size and characteristics of the disabled adult population living in private households in Great Britain. Looks at: prevalence; severity; type of disability; socio-demographic characteristics; economic activity; financial circumstances; use of social and health services; needs for services and assistance; and social participation.
Handbook of aging and the social sciences
- Editors:
- BINSTOCK Robert H., GEORGE Linda K., et al
- Publisher:
- Academic Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 552p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- San Diego, CA
Contains sections on: research directions and unresolved issues in ageing and the social sciences; the state of theory in ageing and the social sciences; ageing and human development; economic and social implications of demographic patterns; disability trends; age, ageing and culture; historical perspective on ageing; race, ethnicity and ageing; gender age and the life course; social factors and illness; families and ageing; caregiving and social support; housing; work and retirement; the political economy of ageing; ageing and politics; the financing and health care of older Americans; social protection and services; ageing and the law; and ethics and ageing.