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Has Anti-Discrimination Legislation Improved the Employment Opportunities of Disabled People?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2012

Michael Floyd  and
John Curtis
Michael Floyd*
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Resource Centre Institute of Health Sciences, Citu University, United Kingdom
John Curtis
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation Resource Centre Institute of Health Sciences, Citu University, United Kingdom
*
24 Chiswett St, London, UK EC1Y 4TY. E-mail: m.floyd@city.ac.uk
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Abstract

This article will first of all consider, in some detail, the recent efforts of researchers in the United States to determine whether the Americans with Disabilities Act has improved the employment opportunities of disabled people. It will then go on to examine data on the employment situation of disabled people in the United Kingdom and how this has changed during the period since December, 1997, when the Disability Discrimination Act came into force. Tentative conclusions are then drawn, regarding the effectiveness of the legislation. The article ends with a consideration of the ways in which the monitoring and evaluation of such major shifts in policy might be improved.

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The Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , January 2004 , pp. 69 - 80
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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