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Wearables may have notable potential as an assistive technology for persons with various difficulties. Although quite popular, smartwatches' niches are still revealing. One of them is definitely in the domain of assistive technology due to their communication and location features. Positioning...
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This article describes how accessibility to ICTs is understood as conformity to standards, which usually ends in designs that do not consider the singularities of people. This article delves into a participatory approach to accessible design, as an alternative to design guided simply by...
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This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …
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personal income (30% for those entering disability insurance) two years after the shock. There is no subsequent recovery in …
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Disability is one of the features that differentiate individuals and groups in modern societies. People with reduced … disability and reduce the barriers faced by persons with disabilities in access to different kinds of resources, spaces and …
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of disability. Subsequently, we analyse whether this specific knowledge results in higher incomes for the respondents … likely to benefit from the knowledge of formal institutions of disability. Through our analysis we have sought to expand the … literature on disability in developing countries using a unique approach that merges concepts from the social capital and …
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-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by … spousal disability which is consistent with the existence of other-regarding preferences within couples. The magnitude of … effects suggests that spousal disability is about one quarter to one half as harmful as individual disability with larger …
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Countries by estimating the effects of disability on employment probabilities for six Central and Eastern European Countries. We … find that disability negatively affects the employment probabilities of disabled people, especially those with severe … disabilities. The effects of disability persist even after controlling for disability benefits, signaling a predominant role for …
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Disability Insurance waiting time varies from a few months to several years. We estimate the causal effect of longer …
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severe impairments can work, led to fundamental disability policy reforms in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Great Britain. In … Australia, rapid growth in disability recipiency led to more modest reforms. Here we describe the factors driving unsustainable … OECD countries, and discuss the reforms each country implemented to regain control over their cash transfer disability …
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