Policy has long been based on the assumption that disabled people are either capable, or incapable, of work. This paper extends earlier analyses which show that the probability of employment is a variable, not an absolute. The disability employment penalty varies by number, type, severity and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Understanding disability in the context of labour market and production -- Chapter 3. Debating the disability-employment relations in the labour market -- Chapter 4. Labour market interventions to promote employment of people with disabilities -- Chapter 5....

In Europe, about one in eight people of working age report having a disability; that is, the presence of a long-term limiting health condition. Despite the introduction of a range of legislative and policy initiatives designed to eliminate discrimination and facilitate retention of and entry...