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Fixing the system? The experience of service users of the quasi-market in disability services in Australia

Spall, Pamela; McDonald, Catherine; Zetlin, Diane - 2005

A qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 31 people with disabilities and 32 carers in the state of Queensland, Australia, found that their experience of supportive service delivery had not improved despite reforms of the service delivery system driven by a version of the...

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Personas in the Design Process: A tool for understanding others

Williams, Karen Lindsay - 2006

Personas, fictional user profiles based on research data, have gained popularity in the design field over recent years. These profiles include names, personalities, behaviors, and goals that are representative of a unique group of individuals. This paper examines the creation and utilization of...

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Towards strategic intent: Perceptions of disability service provision amongst hotel accommodation managers

Darcy, Simon; Pegg, Shane - 2011

ascertain the perceptions of managers in the accommodation sector towards disability service provision with a view to … people with a disability to communicate their needs to the hotel; perceptions of accessible rooms by the general public; and … included: legislative responsibility, policy and building codes; disability as a market segment; staff awareness/training; and …

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Are workers with a disability less productive or less understood? An empirical investigation from an entrepreneurial business planning perspective

Hindle, Kevin; Noble, Jock; Phillips, Brian - 1999

group between workers with a disability and workers without a disability. On five measures of productivity, no significant … differences were discernible but on a sixth measure, length of employment, it was found that disability workers remained in … employment significantly longer. These results strongly refute the ‘intuitive wisdom’ that workers with a disability are less …

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Identity and ownership : Since I came to work at dal I don?t have a disability

Marks, Genee - 2006

receive federal or state disability funding, and about half as many support staff. Rather than being seen as an agency …

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Since I came to work at DAL I don't have a disability

Marks, Genee - 2005

receive federal or state disability funding, and about half as many support staff. Rather than being seen as an agency …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484663

THE ECONOMIC PROGRESS OF A COUNTRY AND THE INCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN SOCIETY - WHERE ARE WE?

Ancuța-Anisia, Chelba - 2023

The subject of disabled people began to be more and more debated in Romania, as well as in other countries. However, it is important to be aware of where we really stand when it comes to this topic. This article aims to highlight the existing relationship between the economic progress of a...

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Social Security, Differential Fertility, and the Dynamics of the Earnings Distribution

Zhao, Kai - 2009

Economists and demographers have long argued that fertility differs by income (differential fertility), and that social security creates incentives for people to rear fewer children. Does the effect of social security on fertility differ by income? How does social security change the...

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Heterogeneous Ability, Life Expectancy, and Social Security : Four Essays

Hupfeld, Stefan - 2008

Though the present thesis is not intended as a monograph, its respective chapters are interrelated: The major research question is whether the German public pension system (or potentially any annuity-based pension system) causes redistribution between income groups. Especially the relationship...

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The distribution of social security transfers in the UK

Nolan, Brian - 1986

The distributional impact of different transfer programmes is one of the basic criteria on which decisions such as those on resource allocation may be based. This paper examines the spread over the UK size distribution of different transfers, using data from the Family Expenditure Survey (FES)....

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