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    Education and employment outcomes for people with disability

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    Authors
    Dockery, Alfred Michael
    Twigger, M.
    Date
    2010
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Dockery, A. Mike and Twigger, Michelle. 2010. Education and employment outcomes for people with disability, in Wrightson, G. (ed), 12th Path to Full Employment Conference and 17th National Conference on Full Employment, pp. 92-104. The University of Newcastle, Australia: Centre of Full Employment and Equity.
    Source Title
    The aftermath of the crisis; Proceedings, refereed papers
    Source Conference
    12th Path to Full Employment Conference and 17th National Conference on Full Employment
    ISBN
    978-0-9807618-4-9
    School
    School of Economics and Finance
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36599
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Disability is a heterogeneous condition that affects 20% of Australians across a broad spectrum of conditions. Despite the enactment of the Disability Discrimination Act of 1992 for the elimination of discrimination in a number of key areas research indicates that very little has changed for this significant proportion of the population. The 2003 Survey of Disability, Ageing & Carers (SDAC) found that disabled Australians have significantly lower levels of education, higher levels of unemployment and lower gross personal household income than that of persons without disability. Of further concern, analysis of ABS data shows an increasing trend in disability rates among young people between 1981 and 2003, while levels of high school graduation for disabled persons fell. This paper builds on past research in education and subsequent employment outcomes for disabled Australians. Using data from the ABS SDAC we examine changes in employment opportunity for disabled people by severity of their disability and the role that access to education has played in reducing labour market disadvantage.

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