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  • The second output from Work Package 5 of the DISCIT study maps the data from the life-course interviews with persons with disabilities in nine countries (Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK). From March to September 2014, 203 interviews were carried out with men and women in three birth cohorts (born around 1950, 1970, and 1990) and four disability categories (mobility, visual, intellectual, and psycho-social). The interviews generated data on the life-courses of persons with disabilities which were summarised and shared among consortium members. This output sets out data on education and employment, looking at the education people received, transitions they made into the labour market, and the number of jobs and length of time they worked. Findings are presented as graphs and numerical data, offering a starting point for a more detailed analysis of labour market careers (pp. 31-43) in the next and final year of the study. The deliverable starts with schooling and moves onto work. The findings we highlight show the diversity in education and employment experienced by persons with disabilities. People’s trajectories into and through the labour market were shaped by gender, impairment, and age and generation, and by national policy instruments which structured the schooling people had and the work they did. The paper highlights differences between men and women, between the four impairment groups, and between the three age cohorts. It shows how men and women, whilst having similar schooling often diverged in the routes they took into work and the experiences they had in it, with many women spending less time in the labour market than men. Across the impairment groups we show variations people with intellectual, mobility, visual and psycho-social impairments, including how schooling was connected to form and severity of impairments, and in the forms of accommodation made available to people to help integrate them into mainstream schools and workplaces. Differences over the impairment categories suggest different needs and levels of accommodation. Finally variations across the age cohorts and nine countries show how policy structures and social attitudes inform the extent to which persons with disabilities have found work in the open labour market, or activities outside of it. Analysis so far shows how people engage with paid work is a matter of labour market opportunity but also of personal choice and preference. Whilst it does for many, being an ‘active citizen’ for others does not necessarily mean having paid work in the mainstream labour market. Voluntary and caring roles or participation in other activities can also give people a sense of being an Active Citizen in ways that make participation in the labour market less important. (xsd:string)
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  • Making Persons with Disabilities Full Citizens – New Knowledge for an Inclusive and Sustainable European Social Model (xsd:string)
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