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- Title
Transportation to employment.
- Authors
Bjerkan, Kristin Ystmark; Nordtømme, Marianne Elvsaas; Kummeneje, An-Magritt
- Abstract
For decades, the employment of Norwegians with disabilities has been lower than for the rest of the population. One possible explanation is inaccessible transportation. To people with disabilities, transportation might pose a significant barrier to employment. Through interviews with people with disabilities who are currently or have been previously employed, this study identifies barriers to transportation experienced by people with disabilities, the presence of these barriers in their occupational lives and the potential consequences for employment. The study shows that transportation is an obvious obstruction to equal level of employment of people with disabilities in their early career, active career and late career.
- Subjects
NORWAY; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH services accessibility; INTERVIEWING; RESEARCH methodology; HEALTH policy; PEOPLE with disabilities; RESEARCH funding; TRANSPORTATION; ACCESSIBLE design of public spaces; QUALITATIVE research; ACCESSIBLE design; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2013, Vol 15, Issue 4, p342
- ISSN
1501-7419
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/15017419.2012.735199