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Costs, Risks and Responsibility. Negotiating the Value of Disabled Workers Between Disability Insurance and Employers

Publisher: Swiss Journal of Sociology (authored by Eva Nadai, Anna Gonon and Fabienne Rotzetter)
Topics: Supported Employment Practice-Business Intelligence, Supported Employment Practice-Professional development, Workplace Solutions - Accommodations, Workplace Solutions - Innovations, Workplace Solutions-Funding, Workplace Solutions - Disability Specific Workplace Inclusion
Year published: 2018
Type of resource: Publication

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Drawing on the theoretical framework of the Economics of Convention, the Costs, Risks and Responsibility. Negotiating the Value of Disabled Workers Between Disability Insurance and Employers paper analyses the employment of people with disabilities as a valuation process. Based on case studies and interviews in business companies and disability insurance offices, it explores how employers and disability insurance determine the value of disabled workers. Inasmuch as employers are not willing to adapt performance standards, job design and work organisation, disability insurance attains individual exceptions for its clients at best, while disabling standards remain intact.

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