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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.