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The use of microfinance services among economically active disabled people: Evidence from Uganda
2010
Authors version of an article in the journal: Journal of International Development. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jid.1720 This study investigates the use of microfinance services among economically active disabled people in Uganda. The findings suggest that disabled people make more use of microfinance services than previously assumed. A total of 89 per cent of the survey's respondents state that they have used at least one type of microfinance service. Informal self-help schemes are more easily accessed than formal institutional schemes, and disabled people access more savings than loans. The multivariate analysis shows that access to microfinance service…
An Integrated Notional Defined Contribution (NDC) Model with Retirement and Permanent Disability
2014
In this paper we develop a theoretical basis for integrating retirement and permanent disability using a generic NDC framework. The methodology used relies on a multistate overlapping generations model that includes the so-called survivor dividend. Currently this feature can only be found in the Swedish defined contribution (DC) scheme. The results achieved in the numerical example we present endorse the fact that the model works well. Special attention is given to the assumptions made about mortality rates for disabled people and disability incidence rates, which largely determine the contribution rate assigned to disability. The model could be of interest to policymakers because, after so…
Disabled People from Welfare to Jobs: A Decision Support Tool
2012
Despite repeated statements from successive governments in Norway, disabled people employment rate remains unchanged since 2000. A range of studies to describe and analyse the situation qualitatively and quantitatively have been performed, however we have not been able to find any study containing a decision support tool focusing on this issue. This paper presents a simulation model, built using the System Dynamics methodology. The model focuses on enabling disabled people to move from welfare to work, incorporating attitudes of disabled people and employers. The model is designed to cover selected factors that are believed to enable and encourage disabled people to take up jobs. It is inte…
Koulutuksen tasa-arvon muuttuvat merkitykset: Kasvatussosiologian vuosikirja 1
2016
Koulutuskysymysten ymmärtäminen edellyttää yhteiskuntatieteellistä ymmärrystä, kun koulutus kytkeytyy yhä tiiviimmin talouteen, elinkeino- ja työvoimapolitiikkaan sekä väestöjen ja osaamisen hallintaan. Kasvatus- ja koulutussosiologinen tutkimus on Suomessa vahvistunut 1980-luvulta lähtien merkittävästi. Kasvatussosiologiselle ymmärrykselle on tilausta, joskin koulutuspolitiikkaa tehdään paljolti tutkimustuloksista piittaamatta, mikä sekin on sosiologisesti kiinnostava ja yhteiskuntatieteellistä analyysia kaipaava asia! Sosiologisen koulutustutkimuksen vahvistuminen näkyy hyvin kotimaisten tieteellisten konferenssien esitelmätarjonnassa. Suomessa järjestetään vuosittain useita tieteellisiä …
Sosiaalipalveluiden työntekijöiden ja vammaisten asiakkaiden vuorovaikutuksen diskurssit asiakkaiden blogikeskusteluissa
2018
Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli tunnistaa vammaisten ihmisten käyttämien sosiaalipalveluiden asiakasvuorovaikutukseen liittyviä diskursseja, jotka ilmenevät asiakkaiden keskusteluissa sosiaalisessa mediassa. Keskusteluista analysoitiin, kuinka sosiaalipalveluiden asiakkaat representoivat asiakkaan ja sosiaalipalveluiden työntekijän ja kuinka keskusteluissa representoidaan asiakas-työntekijävuorovaikutusta. Blogikirjoituksia analysoitiin käyttämällä diskurssianalyysia. Aineistosta rakentui kolme erilaista diskurssia, jotka tunnistettiin analysoimalla representoituja identiteettejä ja erilaisten vuorovaikutustilanteiden ja -suhteiden kuvauksia; 1) kansalaisdiskurssiksi, 2) sortamisdiskurssi…
RAPID PROTOTYPING FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE ACCESSIBILITY TO CULTURAL HERITAGE FOR BLIND PEOPLE
2019
Abstract. The extension of accessibility of CH to disabled people is a current topic of great importance. Today, there exist a lot of ongoing projects aimed at the extension of accessibility using the most recent and low cost technologies to improve accessibility to CH. One of the technologies, today available that can help to improve accessibility to CH, is certainly rapid prototyping. The main goal of the research here illustrated is the application of rapid prototyping for the extension of accessibility of Cultural Heritage (CH) to blind and visually impaired people. This document reports an experiment that compared the effectiveness of different 3D models for the introduction of blind a…
Calidad de vida de los discapacitados intelectuales valorada por ellos mismos y los profesionales: variables implicadas
2016
Mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas con Discapacidad Intelectual es un objetivo prioritario desde la implantación de la Ley de Promoción de la Autonomía Personal y Atención a las personas en situación de dependencia. Los profesionales y los propios usuarios no siempre coinciden en la valoración que tienen acerca de las diferentes dimensiones de que consta el constructo. Es posible que las discrepancias se deban a variables no especialmente atendidas por la investigación como el modo en que viven (vivienda tutelada, residencia o unidad familiar), o el grado de discapacidad que muestran. El objetivo de este estudio ha consistido en analizar las posibles discrepancias existentes entre l…
Sport e soggetti fragili: tra ordinamento sportivo, tutele civilistiche e libertà costituzionali
2023
The paper analyzes the evolution of sporting activity for disabled people, focusing in particular on the problems concerning the performance of risky sporting activities by people with mental disabilities; these problems per- tain to the relationship between the protection of health understood as the interest of the community and the protection of health understood as the right to the pursuit of happiness, which also involve the question of the limits to the acts of disposing of one's body, and which are resolved through a continuous dialogue between the sports system and the state system.