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The Employment Situation of People with Disabilities in the European Union

- Study prepared by EIM Business and Policy Research for the European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs, August 2001

People with disabilities are in general older, less well educated and more likely to be female than those who are not disabled. All of these characteristics are associated with groups in a relatively unfavourable labour market position. This suggests that disabled people with disabilities are 'doubly disadvantaged' in the labour market, and that specific labour market policies for disabled people are required, irrespective of whether they are employed, unemployed or inactive.

Disabled people in employment work fewer hours per week, and receive lower wages than their non-disabled counterparts, and the evidence is consistent with widespread discrimination against disabled people in the labour market.

Document's Table of Contents
Section Page
Foreword 5
Executive Summary 7
Rιsumι du rapport de recherche 13
Resόmee der Studie 21
1 Introduction 29
1.1 An increasing interest in disabled people 29
1.2 A network of European experts 29
1.3 Definitions and demarcation 29
1.4 Research questions 30
1.5 Structure of the report 30
2 Disabled people in the European Union 32
2.1 Definitions and sources 32
2.2 Disability in the European Union 34
2.3 Who are the disabled? 35
2.3.1 Introduction 35
2.3.2 Age 36
2.3.3 Gender 36
2.3.4 Educational level 37
2.3.5 Household composition 37
2.4 Con 38
3 The labour market position of disabled persons 39
3.1 Introduction 39
3.2 The labour market situation of people with disabilities 39
3.3 Characteristics of disabled in employment 42
3.3.1 Socio-demographic characteristics 42
3.3.2 Job characteristics 43
3.4 Benefit schemes and active labour market programmes: definitions and sources 45
3.5 Participation in benefit schemes 46
3.6 Participation in active labour market programmes 49
3.7 Con 49
4 Conclusions and recommendations 51
4.1 Introduction 51
4.2 The employment situation of people with disabilities in the EU 51
4.3 A potential rise in the employment rate? 52
4.4 Research agenda 54
4.5 Improving information 55
4.6 Indicators for monitoring the employment situation of disabled 56
Sources and Literature 59

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