Schimmele Christoph, Jeon Sung-Hee, Arim Rubab
Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
J Occup Rehabil. 2024 Oct 3. doi: 10.1007/s10926-024-10239-2.
The aim of the study is to examine the role of unmet needs for workplace accommodations (WPA) in the labor force status of persons with disabilities (PWD) aged 25-64 years.
The study used data from the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability and multinomial logistic regressions to estimate the predicted probabilities of employment, unemployment, detachment from the labor force, and retirement. Product terms were used to examine if the association between unmet needs for WPA and these employment outcomes depended on severity of disability and age group.
The findings show that the probability of employment was far lower for PWD with unmet needs for WPA than it was for their counterparts without unmet needs, after controlling for disability-related and sociodemographic characteristics. While having more severe disabilities associated with a lower employment rate, this occurred in the context of unmet needs for WPA, as there was no difference between persons with milder and more severe disabilities without unmet needs. Unmet needs for WPA had age-specific consequences and were associated with a higher probability of unemployment and detachment from the labor force among PWDs aged 25-34 years and a higher probability of retirement among PWD aged 55-64 years.
Unmet needs for WPA are a barrier to the employment chances of many PWD and eliminating these unmet needs could increase their inclusion in the labor force.
本研究旨在探讨工作场所便利需求未得到满足（WPA）在25至64岁残疾人（PWD）劳动力状况中的作用。
该研究使用了2017年加拿大残疾调查的数据和多项逻辑回归来估计就业、失业、脱离劳动力队伍和退休的预测概率。使用乘积项来检验WPA未满足需求与这些就业结果之间的关联是否取决于残疾严重程度和年龄组。
研究结果表明，在控制了与残疾相关的特征和社会人口统计学特征后，WPA需求未得到满足的残疾人的就业概率远低于需求得到满足的残疾人。虽然残疾程度越严重，就业率越低，但这种情况是在WPA需求未得到满足的背景下发生的，因为需求得到满足的轻度和重度残疾人之间没有差异。WPA需求未得到满足具有特定年龄的后果，与25至34岁残疾人的失业和脱离劳动力队伍的较高概率以及55至64岁残疾人的较高退休概率相关。
WPA需求未得到满足是许多残疾人就业机会的障碍，消除这些未得到满足的需求可以增加他们融入劳动力队伍的程度。
