Journal of Applied Economic Research
ISSN 2712-7435
Supported Employment for People with Disabilities: a Review of International Experience
Natsun L.N.
Abstract
The transition to the knowledge economy is accompanied by broad cultural transformations. They also affect people's attitude to vulnerable groups of the population. Developed countries tend to implement programs for overcoming social exclusion and human development as part of welfare policies. People with disabilities are one of the population’s groups who are granted special social support. For instance, there have been developed schemes of supported employment for realizing their labour potential. This work deals with preconditions and effects of implementing such practices in some foreign countries. As the information base of the research the authors used official documents, open-source government statistics, published works by Russian and foreign authors. It has been established that the social policy of inclusion of persons with disabilities in labour activity has evolved through several stages: from the creation of specialized enterprises for the disabled to building an extensive set of infrastructure innovations that facilitate the entry of disabled persons to the free labour market. Models of supported employment have demonstrated greater or lesser efficiency in different countries, but overall they helped to overcome discrimination against people with disabilities on the labour market, anchored the idea of all people having equal rights in the collective consciousness. International experience may find application in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russian Federation</st1:place></st1:country-region> where the issue of promoting employment of persons with disabilities has acquired a special significance in the face of a declining population of working age. Involvement of Russian unemployed people with disabilities in labour activity may ensure an inflow of about 90,000 workers into the economy. The results of the study may be of interest to specialists engaged in the development of technologies of social administration.
Keywords
disability; social policy; barriers to social inclusion of disabled people; the regulation of the labour market; employment of disabled people
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About Authors
Natsun Leila Natigovna – Junior Researcher, Research Laboratory of Issues Management in Social Sphere, Department Studies Living Standards and Lifestyle of Population, Institute of Socio-Economic Development of Territories of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vologda, Russia (160014, Vologda, Gorky Street, 56A); e-mail: leyla.natsun@yandex.ru.
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Natsun L.N. A Supported Employment for People with Disabilities: a Review of International Experience. Bulletin of Ural Federal University. Series Economics and Management, 2017, Vol. 16, No. 4, 663-680. DOI: 10.15826/vestnik.2017.16.4.032.
Article info
Received June 19, 2017; Accepted June 26, 2017
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vestnik.2017.16.4.032
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