ArticleBMC public health2017
Success and failure in narrowing the disability employment gap: comparing levels and trends across Europe 2002-2014.
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- Pooled it
- Individual Placement and Support and Participatory Workplace Intervention on the Work Participation of People with Disabilities: A Randomised Controlled Trial.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Trial
- Process Evaluation of Individual Placement and Support and Participatory Workplace Intervention to Increase the Sustainable Work Participation of People with Work Disabilities.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Trial
- From secondary special needs education to the labor market: latent trajectories and inequalities in employment participation.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- Promoting labour market inclusion of the chronically ill: a scoping review of Scandinavian countries' efforts.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2023Article
- The impact of disability-related deprivation on employment opportunity at the neighborhood level: does family socioeconomic status matter?Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Multidimensional poverty of persons with disabilities in China: An analysis of poverty reduction effect of employment services.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The importance of disability representation to address implicit bias in the workplace.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2023Article
- Does Work Disability Contribute to Trajectories of Work Participation before and after Vocational Labour Market Training for Job Seekers?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundInternational comparisons of the disability employment gap are an important driver of policy change. However, previous comparisons have used the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), despite known comparability issues. We present new results from the higher-quality European Social Survey (ESS), compare these to EU-SILC and the EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), and also examine trends in the disability employment gap in Europe over the financial crisis for the first time.
methodsFor cross-sectional comparisons of 25 countries, we use micro-data for ESS and EU-SILC for 2012 and compare these to published EU-LFS 2011 estimates. For trend analyses, we use seven biannual waves of ESS (2002-2014) with a total sample size of 182,195, and annual waves of EU-SILC (2004-2014) with a total sample size of 2,412,791.
results(i) Cross-sectional: countries that have smaller disability employment gaps in one survey tend to have smaller gaps in the other surveys. Nevertheless, there are some countries that perform badly on the lower-quality surveys but better in the higher-quality ESS. (ii) Trends: the disability employment gap appears to have declined in ESS by 4.9%, while no trend is observed in EU-SILC - but this has come alongside a rise in disability in ESS.
conclusionsThere is a need for investment in disability measures that are more comparable over time/space. Nevertheless, it is clear to policymakers there are some countries that do consistently well across surveys and measures (Switzerland), and others that do badly (Hungary).
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