Employment Declines Among People with Disabilities: Population Movements, Isolated Experience, or Broad Policy Concern?

Employment Declines Among People with Disabilities: Population Movements, Isolated Experience, or Broad Policy Concern?

Self-employment among people with disabilities: evidence for Europe

This paper examines the use of self-employment among people with disabilities in Europe. Using data from the European Community Household Panel for the period 1995–2001 for 13 European countries we found that people with disabilities were more likely to be self-employed than people without disabilities. Self-employment provides flexibility and a better adjustment between disability status and w...

Lived Experience of People With Acquired Disabilities (A Phenomenological Study)

Introduction: Acquired disability is a peculia phenomenon that can lead to different personal and social experiences. This phenomenon, which is caused accidentally, poses serious challenges to an independent person who was able to do his/her tasks and leads to different and deep experiences for the disabled person, family, and relatives. This study was to explore lived experience and the meanin...

The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities A Policy Puzzle

A major debate has begun over reports of an unprecedented decline in the employment rate of working-aged people with disabilities during the 1990s business cycle (1989–2000) by those using currently available data sources to track the employment and economic well-being of the U.S. population. The debate is occurring at two overlapping levels. The first is over the quality of the data, with some...

Introduction [to The Decline in Employment of People with Disabilities]