Success and failure in narrowing the disability employment gap: comparing levels and trends across Europe 2002–2014
dc.contributor.author | Baumberg Geiger, Ben | |
dc.contributor.author | van der Wel, Kjetil A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Tøge, Anne Grete | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-02T21:27:10Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-12-18T12:31:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-12-02T21:27:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-12-18T12:31:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Baumberg Geiger, van der Wel Kaw, Tøge AG. Success and failure in narrowing the disability employment gap: comparing levels and trends across Europe 2002–2014. BMC Public Health. 2017;17(1):1-7 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2458 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/5422 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: International comparisons of the disability employment gap are an important driver of policy change. However, previous comparisons have used the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), despite known comparability issues. We present new results from the higher-quality European Social Survey (ESS), compare these to EU-SILC and the EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS), and also examine trends in the disability employment gap in Europe over the financial crisis for the first time. Methods: For cross-sectional comparisons of 25 countries, we use micro-data for ESS and EU-SILC for 2012 and compare these to published EU-LFS 2011 estimates. For trend analyses, we use seven biannual waves of ESS (2002–2014) with a total sample size of 182,195, and annual waves of EU-SILC (2004–2014) with a total sample size of 2,412,791. Results: (i) Cross-sectional: countries that have smaller disability employment gaps in one survey tend to have smaller gaps in the other surveys. Nevertheless, there are some countries that perform badly on the lower-quality surveys but better in the higher-quality ESS. (ii) Trends: the disability employment gap appears to have declined in ESS by 4.9%, while no trend is observed in EU-SILC – but this has come alongside a rise in disability in ESS. Conclusions: There is a need for investment in disability measures that are more comparable over time/space. Nevertheless, it is clear to policymakers there are some countries that do consistently well across surveys and measures (Switzerland), and others that do badly (Hungary). | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en |
dc.rights | © The Author(s). 2017 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Arbeid / Labour | en |
dc.subject | Europa / Europe | en |
dc.title | Success and failure in narrowing the disability employment gap: comparing levels and trends across Europe 2002–2014 | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2017-12-02T21:27:10Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | http://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4938-8 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1519237 | |
dc.source.journal | BMC Public Health | |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200 | |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social sciences: 200 |
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