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Developing a Participatory Approach to Accessible Design

Laitano, María Inés - In: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge … 9 (2017) 4, pp. 1-11

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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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015

disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt … of publically provided disability benefits has fluctuated over time and discuss how policy choices played a role. Based …

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Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael; Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment … Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per 25 non-disabled workers, a rule which is …, firms exactly at the quota threshold employ 0.05 (20 % in relative terms) more disabled workers than firms just below the …

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Does Raising the Retirement Age increase Employment of Older Workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … associated foregone income tax revenues the actual reduction was only 148 million Euros. High-wage and healthy workers carried … the bulk of the fall in net government expenditures. Low-wage and less healthy workers generated much less government …

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Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution

Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement … entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue … for workers aged 50+; and (ii) program substitution is quantitatively relevant for workers aged 55+. We derive a simple …

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Diverse disability

Berthoud, Richard - 2014

extends earlier analyses which show that the probability of employment is a variable, not an absolute. The disability …

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The Integration of Elderly and Disabled People into Urban and Social Life: A New Model for Konya/Turkey-YEBAM

Meshur, H.Filiz Alkan; Alkan, Ahmet - 2014

The process of demographic change occurring around the world is also reflected in Turkey. The elderly population and thus, the number of people who are in need of care, will increase in Turkey in the future. Furthermore, approximately 13% of Turkey's population consists of disabled people. This...

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Factors Motivating Participation of Persons with Disability in the Philippines: The Discount Privilege in Goods and Services

Tabuga, Aubrey D. - 2010

In urban Philippines, the percentage of persons with disability (PWDs) participating in various government and … also low. These were some of the findings of a 2008 survey on persons with disability in selected cities in Metro Manila …. Interestingly, it focuses on the role of social networks among PWD, environmental constraints, and the type of disability the person …

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Employment Choices of Persons with Disability (PWDs) in Metro Manila

Mina, Christian D. - 2010

This paper examined how PWDs in the Philippines make a living and determined the factors that influenced them to select a particular labor market status and/or a source of personal income. It also analyzed the different types of work these PWDs engage in and their association with levels of...

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Policy Awareness and Participation by Persons with Disability in the Philippines

Tabuga, Aubrey D. - 2013

The Philippines had laid down the groundwork for improving the welfare of persons with disability (PWDs) two decades … ago when it enacted the Magna Carta for Persons with Disability. Several other policies have been formulated since then to …

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