Background: People with visual impairment or blindness (PWVIB) face many barriers related to employment. Although literature explores employers' concerns regarding the employment of PWVIB, stating the concern and developing a solution are different. Objectives: Employers' solutions to concerns...

Increased urbanisation poses serious challenges to adequate housing in the cities of the Global South. Many have focused on the issues of access to serviced land, housing finance, and public subsidy in augmenting the supply of low-income affordable housing while ignoring the criticality of...

Purpose: Since the enactment of the long-term care insurance (LTCI) act in 2000, the number of LTCI users has increased annually. However, evidence regarding what is being carried out as rehabilitation treatment under LTCI is lacking. In this study, a scoping review was performed to bridge this...

Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration, under certain circumstances, can improve inmates' social reintegration upon release. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration can lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper finds that participation in social...

Die Innenwelt von Kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) und die Außenwelt der in Deutschland fragmentierten und differenziert gegliederten Rehabilitationsträger sind durch eine deutliche soziale und kulturelle Divergenz gekennzeichnet. Diese Divergenz i ist, soweit es an...

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against transgressors of laws or social norms. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive analysis on how ostracism affects behavior and the functioning of a social group. We...

Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against transgressors of laws or social norms. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive analysis on how ostracism affects behavior and the functioning of a social group. We...

Die Innenwelt von Kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) und die Außenwelt der in Deutschland fragmentierten und differenziert gegliederten Rehabilitationsträger sind durch eine deutliche soziale und kulturelle Divergenz gekennzeichnet. Diese Divergenz i ist, soweit es an...

The present study was an attempt to conduct a mangrove rehabilitation program, propose possible mangrove based income generating project and eventually create an eco-tourism destination.The researcher selected 100 respondents which composed of; 50 resident and fisher folks of Tibaguin Hagonoy...

Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration can improve inmates' social reintegration under certain circumstances. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration may lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper finds that participation in social rehabilitation...

Increasing evidence suggests that incarceration, under certain circumstances, can improve inmates' social reintegration upon release. Yet, the mechanisms through which incarceration can lead to successful rehabilitation remain largely unknown. This paper finds that participation in social...

There is a pronounced gradient in disability across socioeconomic groups, with better educated and higher income groups reporting substantially less disability. In this paper, we consider why that is the case, focusing on impairments in basic physical and cognitive aspects of living for the...

I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data from Italy and combining quasi-experimental and structural econometric methods to achieve both a credible identification and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing...

This paper examines a broad set of short- and long-term impacts of Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for disability benefit recipients with severe mental disabilities. IPS is a specific intervention that first aims to place an individual in employment and subsequently trains the worker on...

Work impairment is an increasing concern in advanced economies, particularly among young people. Activation, rather than passively providing economic support, is often regarded as the preferred strategy for addressing this issue. However, little is known about which measures are effective for...

Introduction: This study describes the characteristics of, services received by, and labor market outcomes of applicants with visual impairments to three state vocational rehabilitation (VR) programs. Our objective is to both document cross-state variation in VR clientele and services as well as...

I study the causal pathways that link prison work programs to convict rehabilitation, leveraging administrative data from Italy and combining quasi-experimental and structural econometric methods to achieve both a credible identification and the isolation of mechanisms. Due to competing...

This paper evaluates a placement coaching program implemented in Zurich during 2009-2013 that focused on the reemployment of persons drawing disability insurance (DI) benefits. A private company was commissioned to implement the program. Kernel-based matching and radius matching with bias...

Chapter 1. The Initial Response Systems used for Major Earthquakes and Disaster-resistant City Planning -- Chapter 2. Theory of Spare City Planning: for Temporary Use in Case of Emergency -- Chapter 3. Reconstruction Plans -- Chapter 4. Summary and Issues That Need to Be Considered -- Chapter 5....

Inwiefern kann die Verwendung assistiver Technologien im Sozial- und Gesundheitssektor eine Antwort sein auf drängende Fragen des demografischen Wandels, des sektoralen Fachkräftemangels und der gesellschaftlichen Teilhabe vulnerabler Personen? Sind sie ein wünschenswerter Beitrag zur...

In this paper we examine the proposition of de-risking through life and the guidance offered by TDFs in the decumulation phase following retirement. Using both Monte Carlo methods along with actual historical experience we investigate the withdrawal experience associated with Glidepath Investing...

Chronische Erkrankungen stellen sowohl betroffene Erwerbstätige wie auch betroffene Klein- und Mittelbetriebe vor große Herausforderungen. Es werden acht Fallberichte aus unterschiedlichsten persönlichen und betrieblichen Kontexten vorgestellt. Exemplarisch werden die Schwierigkeiten einer...

Vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels und einer von steigendem Leistungsdruck geprägten Gesellschaft gewinnen Dienstleistungen von Rehabilitationseinrichtungen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Trotz der wachsenden Nachfrage stehen die Rehabilitationseinrichtungen in Deutschland unter starken...

Mit "IP Neu" wurden 2014 Neuregelungen im Bereich der Invaliditätspension (IP) umgesetzt. Zielsetzung ist die verstärkte Arbeitsmarktintegration von gesundheitlich beeinträchtigten Menschen. Dazu wurde die befristete Invaliditäts- bzw. Berufsunfähigkeitspension abgeschafft und stattdessen...

This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...