Investigating needs and barriers to the employment of people with disabilites

Authors

  • Panagiotis Tsalis
  • Emmanouil Aivazelis
  • Julia Tapali
  • Georgia Fyka
  • Prokopis Orfanos
  • Aristotelis Naniopoulos

Keywords:

Employment, disabled persons, survey, WorkAbility, Greece, J71

Abstract

The principal aim of the WorkAbility project was to apply a holistic approach concerning underemployment and unemployment in the case of people with disabilities in Greece. A questionnaire survey was undertaken in the framework of WorkAbility to investigate the employment status of people with disabilities in the Region of Central Macedonia. A total of 306 persons with disabilities participated in the survey, of which 101 persons were deaf or hard-of-hearing, 100 persons vision-impaired and 105 persons were hemiplegics, paraplegics or tetraplegics. A statistical analysis of data collected was performed and interesting results have been drawn for the total sample as a whole and for each disability group separately. A set of different variables has been examined and the statistical significance between them has been also determined. Survey results are available online and can be exploited towards the establishment of accessible employment and entrepreneurship in Greece.

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Published

2018-07-02

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