Disability, labour market participation and the effect of educational level: compared to what?

The aim of the article is to discuss the relationship between disability, educational level and employment, and to scrutinize how disability and education interact to impact employment - a link that has been observed in several studies. The article uses analyses of [European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions] EU-SILC data to illustrate that conclusions about whether higher education reduces labour-market inequalities between disabled and non-disabled, depends in part on the analytical strategies used, which in turn are guided by implicit or explicit theoretical assumptions about ... Show more

Authors: Bliksvaer, Trond

Published: Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm University Press, 2018

Resource type: Article

Access item: http://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.3

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