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Article: The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap in the UK
Title | The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap in the UK |
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Keywords | Disability Economically inactive Impairment ICF-Model Mental health Unemployment Work accommodations Work adjustments |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed |
Citation | Social Science & Medicine, 2021, v. 285, article no. 114313 How to Cite? |
Abstract | There has been limited theoretical and empirical research into the role of workplace accommodations in enabling workers with and without impairments to remain in work. This study used the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model to examine (a) whether workplace accommodations enable workers, particularly those with different impairments, to remain economically active; and (b) the predictors of the onset of work accommodations. Data from two waves of a large-scale longitudinal survey of disability in Great Britain, the Life Opportunities Survey (2009–2012) were analysed. 2307 workers with an impairment and 4308 workers without an impairment were followed up for a year. Work accommodations appear to enable workers with impairments to remain economically active, especially those with mental impairments. There was no difference in the employment rates of workers with and without mental impairments who had two or more work accommodations, in contrast to the 10% employment gap between workers with and without mental impairments who did not have any work accommodations. While there was no gender difference in the disability employment gap, barriers to employment related to caregiving were much greater for women compared to men. Moreover, only workers with incident pain impairments were associated with an increase in their work accommodations, not workers with incident mental impairments. Despite the evidence that workers with mental impairments could benefit considerably from workplace accommodations, they are less likely to have their workplace adjusted. The ICF model is particularly useful in analysing the role of work accommodations because it considers a much wider range of factors that are relevant not just to workers with different types of impairments, but are also relevant to the wider group of workers who use workplace accommodations. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/306794 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.954 |
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dc.contributor.author | Chandola, T | - |
dc.contributor.author | Rouxel, P | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-22T07:39:41Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-22T07:39:41Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Science & Medicine, 2021, v. 285, article no. 114313 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0277-9536 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/306794 | - |
dc.description.abstract | There has been limited theoretical and empirical research into the role of workplace accommodations in enabling workers with and without impairments to remain in work. This study used the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model to examine (a) whether workplace accommodations enable workers, particularly those with different impairments, to remain economically active; and (b) the predictors of the onset of work accommodations. Data from two waves of a large-scale longitudinal survey of disability in Great Britain, the Life Opportunities Survey (2009–2012) were analysed. 2307 workers with an impairment and 4308 workers without an impairment were followed up for a year. Work accommodations appear to enable workers with impairments to remain economically active, especially those with mental impairments. There was no difference in the employment rates of workers with and without mental impairments who had two or more work accommodations, in contrast to the 10% employment gap between workers with and without mental impairments who did not have any work accommodations. While there was no gender difference in the disability employment gap, barriers to employment related to caregiving were much greater for women compared to men. Moreover, only workers with incident pain impairments were associated with an increase in their work accommodations, not workers with incident mental impairments. Despite the evidence that workers with mental impairments could benefit considerably from workplace accommodations, they are less likely to have their workplace adjusted. The ICF model is particularly useful in analysing the role of work accommodations because it considers a much wider range of factors that are relevant not just to workers with different types of impairments, but are also relevant to the wider group of workers who use workplace accommodations. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/socscimed | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Social Science & Medicine | - |
dc.subject | Disability | - |
dc.subject | Economically inactive | - |
dc.subject | Impairment | - |
dc.subject | ICF-Model | - |
dc.subject | Mental health | - |
dc.subject | Unemployment | - |
dc.subject | Work accommodations | - |
dc.subject | Work adjustments | - |
dc.title | The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap in the UK | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Chandola, T: chandola@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Rouxel, P: plrouxel@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Chandola, T=rp02885 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114313 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 34399292 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85112324668 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 329195 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 285 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | article no. 114313 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | article no. 114313 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000691544800014 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |