Attitudes and Beliefs of Job Development Professionals Toward Employers [PDF]
Job development and placement professionals assist people with disabilities to secure, maintain, and advance in employment and thus have an important role in achieving quality employment outcomes for job seekers they represent.
Ellen Fabian +3 more
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IntroductionThe employment landscape for multiply marginalized people with disabilities presents significant challenges, exacerbated by intersecting identities such as race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, poverty, and geography.
Kelsey S. Goddard +5 more
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Job Developer Types, Placement Practices and Outcomes Technical Report [PDF]
Despite numerous employment initiatives, people with disabilities are significantly more likely to experience unemployment and consequently, reduced economic and social well-being and a dminished quality of life than their non disabled peers. In a recent
Ellen S. Fabian +2 more
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Employing those not expected to work: The stunning changes in the employment of single mothers and people with disabilities in the United States in the 1990s [PDF]
This report compares the dramatic changes in the level of government benefits provided to single mothers and people with disabilities, especially in the 1990s.
Burkhauser, Richard V. +1 more
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EMPLOYMENT OF GRADUATES WITH DISABILITIES
The article presents the results of a sociological survey of graduates with disabilities of Moscow universities conducted by the Laboratory of monitoring studies conjointly with the Department of employment of graduates of MSUPE.
Elena V. Arzhanykh +2 more
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The Workforce Investment Act of 1998: Performance Management and People With Disabilities [PDF]
The primer outlines the various components of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA). It also suggests ways that people with disabilities can fully access WIA systems and services.The report was prepared for the Rehabilitation Research and Training ...
Ariana Funaro, Duke Storen, K. A. Dixon
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People with disabilities: A new model of productive labor [PDF]
The nation’s largest minority is people with disabilities, comprising more than 50 million individuals (U.S. Census Bureau 2008), who contribute to the diversity that nurtures new ideas and supports businesses become more competitive in a diverse ...
Kalargyrou, Valentini
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A Review of Recent Evaluation Efforts Associated with Programs and Policies Designed to Promote the Employment of Adults with Disabilities [PDF]
The purpose of this report is to provide a review of the recent evaluation activities being conducted for a number of state and federal programs, policies, and initiatives designed to promote the employment of people with disabilities.
Livermore, Gina A., Goodman, Nanette
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Mental Health in the Workplace: Situation Analyses, Germany [PDF]
[From Introduction] The ILO’s primary goals regarding disability are to prepare and empower people with disabilities to pursue their employment goals and facilitate access to work and job opportunities in open labour markets, while sensitising policy ...
Breucker, Gregor +2 more
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Research Brief: Employer Practices and the Employment of People with Disabilities: Scoping the Literature [PDF]
Much of the literature about disability employment aimed at employers has consisted of checklists and recommendations of best practices that are loosely based on academic theories of diversity but lack research-based evidence of their efficacy.
Karpur, Arun, VanLooy, Sara
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