Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/302241 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2024.08
Publisher: 
European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels
Abstract: 
Despite changing attitudes around disability over time, people with disabilities still face large barriers to labour market participation. We apply a sociological framework that considers both supply- and demand-side explanations for labour market inequality to help understand the continuing earnings and employment disparities experienced by people with disabilities across countries. Specifically, we review reemployment disparities across different measures of disability, address sets of individual-level and structural explanations for these disparities, discuss how these explanations interact, and apply them to examples related to intersectionality, unionisation, contingent work, and employment in times of crisis. Paid employment is central to people's social and economic wellbeing within liberal market-based economies, making it important to understand the many dimensions of labour market inequality.
Subjects: 
Disabled workers
Labor market discrimination
Social inequality
Wage structure
Western Europe
Canada
USA
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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