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Working Life of Women with Disabilities–A Review

Pawłowska-Cyprysiak K., Konarska M.

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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2013

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Vol. 19, No. 3

409--414

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The aim of this study was to present the situation of women with disabilities on the labour market. Women with disabilities suffer from social and professional discrimination. They are discriminated because of their gender and disability. The Q1 Labour Force Participation Study (2013) showed that, in Poland, labour force participation for men and women with disabilities was 29.4% and 14.7%, respectively, while the unemployment rate was 16.1% for men and 17.2% for women. Quarterly information on employment, unemployment and economic inactivity was gathered from a Labour Force Survey in the first quarter of 2013; data from the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy were also included. The participants of the survey were 15 years old or older; they were members of a sample household. The methodology was based on definitions recommended by the International Labour Office and Eurostat. It is important that women with disabilities are substantially less professionally active, while the unemployment rate for them is only slightly higher.

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Self-Perceived Quality of Life of People With Physical Disabilities and Labour Force Participation

Pawłowska-Cyprysiak K., Konarska M., Żołnierczyk-Zreda D.

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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2013

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Vol. 19, No. 2

185--194

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The aim of this study was to assess self-perceived quality of life of people with physical disabilities from the perspective of work. The following tools were used in the study: a personal questionnaire, an SF-36v2 questionnaire, an I-E Scale at Work and a Polish adaptation of the Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index. The study involved 426 disabled persons aged 18-65. It demonstrated that quality of life depends, to a large extent on factors such as age and labour force participation. Duration of looking for work had a significant influence the satisfaction from the psychological perspective and on the perception of general health. For the respondents who were unemployed and not looking for work, quality of life decreased with increased duration of professional inactivity.

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Is Fixed-Term Employment a New Risk for Adverse Physical Working Conditions?

Saloniemi A., Virtanen P., Koivisto A. M.

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

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2004

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Vol. 10, No. 1

35--42

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Relationships between employment type and the physical work environment were studied among blue-collar workers (n = 1,127). Based on survey data, we set out to compare the evaluations of environmental load and physical strain at work given by fixed-term (17% of all) and permanent workers. The type of employment was not related to environmental load. However, working on a fixed-term basis increased the risk of physical strain at work. Analyses revealed that this connection was evident only among fixed-term construction workers. The results did not support the much-cited view that the disintegration of standard employment has given rise to a new series of work environment problems. Such problems are concentrated in an area with a long tradition of work environment problems, that is, in the construction industry.