Research : The price of exclusion
To contribute to the information base used by decision-makers in allocating resources to programmes relating to the employability and employment of people with disabilities, the ILO commissioned an exploratory study of the macro–economic costs of excluding people with disabilities from the world of work. Building on previous research, this study developed a new approach that takes two drivers of economic losses into account: the gap between the potential and the actual productivity of people with disabilities; and the difference between unemployment and inactivity rates of non-disabled people and people with disabilities. Together, these drivers yield the costs that society has to bear for excluding people with disabilities from the world of work. The approach was tested using data from a selection of ten countries in Asia (China, Thailand, and Viet Nam) and Africa (Ethiopia, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe).
- Author/Editor
- Sebastian Buckup
- Publishing Year
- 2009