The obstacle course to economic independence: Labour force participation for people with disabilities in Australia
The 2009 Australian National Disability Strategy Consultation Report (NDSCR) paints a tragic picture of what it is to be disabled in a first world nation in the 21st Century. Despite the Australian Government passing the national Disability Discrimination Act in 1992 designed to eliminate discrimina...
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| description | The 2009 Australian National Disability Strategy Consultation Report (NDSCR) paints a tragic picture of what it is to be disabled in a first world nation in the 21st Century. Despite the Australian Government passing the national Disability Discrimination Act in 1992 designed to eliminate discrimination on the grounds of disability in areas of education, employment, access and law, the legislation has failed to live up to its objective of ensuring ?that persons with disabilities have the same fundamental rights as the rest of the community?. The 2003 Survey of Disability and Aging found that the 20% of Australians classed as disabled had significantly lower levels of education, higher levels of unemployment and the gross personal household income was half that of persons without disability. This report builds on past research into disability and labour force participation, investigates whether there have been any significant improvements in employment outcomes for disabled Australians over the past decade and considers the social and economic implications for policy makers. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-83512017-01-30T11:06:13Z The obstacle course to economic independence: Labour force participation for people with disabilities in Australia Twigger, Michelle Fisher, Lance labour force participation employment Disability education The 2009 Australian National Disability Strategy Consultation Report (NDSCR) paints a tragic picture of what it is to be disabled in a first world nation in the 21st Century. Despite the Australian Government passing the national Disability Discrimination Act in 1992 designed to eliminate discrimination on the grounds of disability in areas of education, employment, access and law, the legislation has failed to live up to its objective of ensuring ?that persons with disabilities have the same fundamental rights as the rest of the community?. The 2003 Survey of Disability and Aging found that the 20% of Australians classed as disabled had significantly lower levels of education, higher levels of unemployment and the gross personal household income was half that of persons without disability. This report builds on past research into disability and labour force participation, investigates whether there have been any significant improvements in employment outcomes for disabled Australians over the past decade and considers the social and economic implications for policy makers. 2010 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8351 https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=ACE10&paper_id=158 Economic Society of Australia fulltext |
| spellingShingle | labour force participation employment Disability education Twigger, Michelle The obstacle course to economic independence: Labour force participation for people with disabilities in Australia |
| title | The obstacle course to economic independence: Labour force participation for people with disabilities in Australia |
| title_full | The obstacle course to economic independence: Labour force participation for people with disabilities in Australia |
| title_fullStr | The obstacle course to economic independence: Labour force participation for people with disabilities in Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | The obstacle course to economic independence: Labour force participation for people with disabilities in Australia |
| title_short | The obstacle course to economic independence: Labour force participation for people with disabilities in Australia |
| title_sort | obstacle course to economic independence: labour force participation for people with disabilities in australia |
| topic | labour force participation employment Disability education |
| url | https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=ACE10&paper_id=158 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8351 |