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Disabled people and jobs
- Author:
- BERTHOUD Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Benefits, 11(3), October 2003, pp.169-174.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
The economic position of disabled people is often summarised by comparing their overall employment rate with that of non-disabled people. Argues that the average future masks a very wide range of variation in the prospects faced by individual disabled people. The severity of their impairments is a crucial influence, but the Labour Force Survey makes now attempt to measure it. Disabled people are also sensitive to other disadvantaging factors such as age and poor qualifications. Argues that more consideration needs to be given to what distinguishes between those disabled people who are, and are not, in work.
Disability and disadvantage: selection, onset and duration effects
- Authors:
- JENKINS Stephen P., RIGG John A
- Publisher:
- London School of Economics. Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary statistics provide a potentially misleading picture of the relationship between disability and disadvantage. The reason is that economic disadvantage among currently-disabled individuals may arise from three potential sources: pre-existing disadvantage (a ‘selection’ effect), effects associated with the onset of disability, and the effects associated with remaining disabled post-onset. The authors' distinction between selection, onset and duration effects is derived from taking a longitudinal perspective to disability and disadvantage. This contrasts with previous analysis of the incomes and employment rates of disabled Britons which has mostly been based on cross-section surveys.
Employees with long-term limiting illness or disabilities
- Author:
- McLEAN John
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 9(6), December 2001, pp.44-47.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This research summary reports on the prevalence, nature and diversity of social services employees with serious illness or disability, and considers how employers can address their needs.
The dynamics of being disabled
- Author:
- BURCHARDT Tania
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 29(4), October 2000, pp.645-668.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
In recent years, the dynamics of poverty and unemployment have come under increasing scrutiny, but another of the risks with which the welfare state concerns itself - disability - is still largely understood only in a static sense. This article uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to investigate the complexity behind a cross-sectional snapshot. First, a breakdown is given of the working-age population who are disabled at any one time by the "disability trajectories" they follow over a seven-year period. Second, the expected duration of disability for those who become disabled during working life is examined. The results show that only a small proportion of working age people who experience disability are long-term disabled, although at any one time, long-term disabled people make up a high proportion of all disabled people. Over half of those who become limited in activities of daily living as adults have spells lasting less than two years, but few who remain disabled after four years recover. intermittent patterns of disability, particularly due to mental illness are common. Failing to distinguish the different disability trajectories people follow has led to policies which marginalise disabled people and are costly to the state.
Disability status and perceptions of employability by employers
- Authors:
- BRICOUT John C., BENTLEY Kia J.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Research, 24(2), June 2000, pp.87-95.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The study discussed in this article used a correlational design to examine the discrepancies among employers' employability ratings of hypothetical job applicants with different disability statuses in the USA. Employers were asked to rate the job applicants' suitability for employment in a hypothetical administrative assistant position. Findings show that job applicants without a disability received the highest men employability rating. Job applicants with an acquired brain injury were rated substantially the same as those with schizophrenia. Implications for social work practice and research are discussed.
Disabled people and the labour market
- Author:
- ANDERSEN Howard
- Publisher:
- West Midlands Low Pay Unit
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 31p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Combines statistics from the 'Labour force survey' and the 'New earnings survey' to construct a pattern of labour market activity relating to disabled people.
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.
Equal opportunities policy and practice in Britain: evaluating the ‘empty shell’ hypothesis
- Authors:
- HOQUE Kim, NOON Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Work Employment and Society, 18(3), September 2004, pp.481-506.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article evaluates the nature and incidence of equal opportunities (EO) policies in the UK using data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS 98).The article identifies the types of workplaces that are more likely to adopt formal gender, ethnicity, disability and age policies. It then assesses whether the policies are ‘substantive’ or merely ‘empty shells’: first, by evaluating the extent to which workplaces that have adopted EO policies have also adopted supporting EO practices; and second, by evaluating the proportion of employees who have access to EO practices in workplaces where they have been adopted. On balance, the ‘empty shell’ argument is more convincing. Smaller workplaces, private sector workplaces and workplaces without an HR or personnel specialist are identified as being more likely to have an ‘empty shell’ policy.While unionized workplaces are more likely to have a formal policy, those policies are no less likely to constitute ‘empty shells’. Finally, the policy, economic and legal implications of the findings are discussed.
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.
A flexible gateway to employment? Disabled people and the Employment Service's Work Preparation programme in Scotland
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, BANKS Pauline, WILSON Alastair
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(2), April 2002, pp.231-230.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Provides a brief discussion of the historical background to employment policy for disabled people, focusing in particular on job rehabilitation and work preparation policies and programmes. Goes on to discuss the nature and outcomes of the Work Preparation Programme in Scotland, drawing on DfEE-funded research. Concludes that the Programme is only achieving modest gains. Particular groups of disabled people, such as people with mental health problems, have fewer opportunities to participate and poorer outcomes. Better outcomes may be achieved if additional and ongoing support for disabled people with higher support needs were available.