This report looks at access to and retention of employment for ‘young disabled’ persons in Ireland. This document is an appendix of the Dutch report. “Arbeidsparticipatie van jonggehandicapten, Een onderzoek naar Europese systemen en praktijken” The study was based on individual national...

Inequality, discrimination and transformation remain the key challenges which most employers are faced with in the South African labor market. Key among such challenges has also been employers' ability to ensure that persons with disabilities access the labor market. In this paper I highlight...

We analyze the impact of both pre-service preparation and in-service formal and informal training on the ability of teachers to promote academic achievement among students with disabilities. We employ rich student-level longitudinal data from Florida over a five-year period to estimate...

The Productivity Commission inquiry report — Disability Care and Support — was released on 10 August 2011. Current disability support arrangements are inequitable, underfunded, fragmented, and inefficient and give people with a disability little choice. They provide no certainty that people...

The transfer of people with disabilities from state institutions to residential housing is one of the great migrations in recent history, but finding adequate housing is difficult. Laws that enact housing quotas make this task even harder. Quotas can require a minimum distance between group...

Young people with disabilities or health problems face particular difficulties in accessing employment. Active inclusion policy is seen as the most appropriate policy instrument for combating the exclusion of these young people from the labour market. This study examines the implementation of...

There is no question that the existence of regional human rights courts and commissions has been an essential element in the enforcement of international human rights in those regions of the world where such tribunals exist. In the specific area of mental disability law, there is now a...

In this article, the author invites legal scholars to consider how the field of Disability Studies relates to law, by creating a new field of Disability Legal Studies. While Disability Studies applies social, cultural, historical, philosophical, and humanities to the place of disability in...

Within the gig economy workers are retained for single gigs and not in secure on-going positions. Workers in precarious work are regarded as workers vulnerable to exploitation. Why then does the leading disability human rights convention, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...