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Przyczyny bierności zawodowej osób niepełnosprawnych
The reasons for inactivity of people with disabilities

Author(s): Beata Bieszk-Stolorz
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Economy, Sociology, Labor relations, Demography and human biology, Human Resources in Economy, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Główny Urząd Statystyczny
Keywords: disabled people; employment of the disabled; labour market; regression models; binomial and multinomial logistic regression models

Summary/Abstract: In recent years there has been an increase in employment of people with dis-abilities in Poland. However, the activity rate of the population is still low. The author based on extensive review of the literature on the subject has made international comparisons. The main goal of this article is to examine the influence of gender, place of residence, educational level, age and degree of disability of people with disabilities in their passivity employment as well as the influence of gender, place of residence and degree of disability on the probability of the rea-sons for this passivity. The study used data from CSO of Poland. The data were analyzed using logistic regression models binomial and multinomial. A relative risk of passivity in relation to activity was determined and the probability of inactivity of people with disabilities from a specific cause was calculated.

  • Issue Year: 59/2014
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 19-37
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish