Why do employers (fail to) hire people with disabilities? A systematic review of capabilities, opportunities and motivations

R Nagtegaal, N De Boer, R Van Berkel, B Derks… - Journal of occupational …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose To increase the number of people with disabilities in employment, we need to
understand what influences employers' hiring decisions. In this systematic review, we map …

Ensuring skills are available in the right locations: are we there yet? A regional analysis of qualification gaps

D Sevinc, A Green, JR Bryson, S Collinson… - Regional …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Matching skills supply and demand is critical for economic growth, competitiveness and
inclusiveness. Yet, measuring skills is difficult. This paper develops an approach for …

[HTML][HTML] Attitudes and behaviour of employers to recruiting persons with disabilities

T Bredgaard, J Salado-Rasmussen - Alter, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite more than two decades of strategies and policies to promote equal employment
opportunities and avoid discrimination against persons with disabilities, major employment …

Striving to abolish a deficit approach to disability: frames applied by frontline workers and activist entrepreneurs in employment

CS Lundberg - Disability & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Frontline workers engaged in enabling employment and activist entrepreneurs strive to
reframe disability as they facilitate work inclusion. They do so in an organisational and …

Employer engagement in promoting the labour-market participation of jobseekers with disabilities. An employer perspective

R Van Berkel - Social Policy and Society, 2021 - cambridge.org
This article contributes to the literature on engaging employers in activation policies. It
focuses on a specific policy aimed at promoting the labour-market participation of people …

Ambivalence in activation encounters

G Olsen - European journal of social work, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
It continues to be unclear what opportunities and challenges that lie in the activation
encounter as a communicative and relational situation. This study assumes that …

Employer participation in active labour market policy: from reactive gatekeepers to proactive strategic partners

M Orton, A Green, G Atfield, SA Barnes - Journal of Social Policy, 2019 - cambridge.org
Active labour market policy (ALMP) is a well-established strategy but one aspect is greatly
neglected–employer participation–about which there is a lack of systematic evidence. The …

From “what works” to “making it work”: A practice perspective on evidence‐based standardization in frontline service organizations

V Bakkeli, E Breit - Social Policy & Administration, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence‐based standards are becoming increasingly influential in frontline services
connected to labor market inclusion of vulnerable citizens. To increase our understanding of …

Workplace perceptions of older workers and implications for job retention

K Frøyland, HCA Terjesen - 2020 - oda.oslomet.no
Older workers' opportunities for late careers are influenced by employer attitudes and
willingness. Nordic managers seem unwilling to hire and retain older persons. In this article …

In Search of a Connection: Public Procurement and Active Labour Market Policies in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia

A Daguerre, J Ingold, QY Lee… - Social Policy & …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Governments in countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States have
increasingly utilised public procurement—their power to purchase goods and services—to …