We experimentally examined fairness perceptions of accommodating people with disabilities by manipulating the granting of an accommodation, reward structure, and the best performer on a word search task. Data from 134 undergraduate students indicated that granting an accommodation was seen as...

The book that is the subject of this Review, Disability & Equity at Work, is a multi-disciplinary, international approach to studying the important issue of how to improve the employment outcomes for individuals with disabilities around the world. This Review accomplishes two goals. First, it...

Social integration at workplace and job satisfaction of employee with disabilities are two major goals of the vocational rehabilitation for the disabled. The current study explored issues and relationship between the social integration for employees with disabilities and their job satisfaction,...

Increasing the overall level of employment is a goal of the Europe 2020 strategy and Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs) have become a key tool used by the European Union and its Member States with a view to increasing employment. This article examines the use of ALMPs, with a special focus on...

Disabled veterans are less likely to work today than in the past; between 1995 and 2014, the percent of veterans who were working while receiving disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) dropped from 62 percent to 49 percent. This drop has led the VA – which...

A disproportionate number of persons living with disabilities have inadequate access to economic opportunities. This has necessitated some interventions by international bodies such as the United Nations, the International Labour Organisation, the World Intellectual Property Organisation and...

In Europe today, a large share of the population suffers from a disability and consequently many people continue to be excluded from the labour market; this exclusion can mean that people are either held back from accessing a job or they experience difficulties in finding and retaining a job....

This in-depth analysis, produced by the Ex-Post Impact Assessment Unit of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), looks into the state of play of the implementation by the European Union of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), after the first round...