Disability inclusive employment in urban Malawi: A multi‐perspective interview study

Conducting and Benchmarking Inclusive Employment Policies, Practices, and Culture by the Disability Case Study Research Consortium

Employment Exposure: Employment and Wage Effects in urban Malawi Susan Godlonton*, Williams College and IFPRI

Labor earnings are critical to exiting poverty. Understanding the returns to the determinants of wage growth is thus important. This paper examines the role of one driver of wage growth, acquired work experience. We exploit an experiment that randomized probabilistic job offers to estimate the employment and wage effects of short term jobs among young men in an urban low income setting. The res...

Managing uncertainty in advanced liver disease: a qualitative, multiperspective, serial interview study

OBJECTIVE To understand the experiences and support needs of people with advanced liver disease and those of their lay and professional carers to inform improvements in the supportive and palliative care of this rapidly growing but currently neglected patient group. DESIGN Multiperspective, serial interviews. We conducted up to three qualitative in-depth interviews with each patient and lay c...

Customized employment: A growing strategy for facilitating inclusive employment

The One-Stop service delivery system was established under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 (Public Law 105–220, 29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.). One of the core principles of WIA was to provide universal access to services by “giving all Americans [including those with disabilities] access to comprehensive services, information and resources that can help them in achieving their career goals...

A data revolution for disability-inclusive development.

7 years after the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted, disability is still largely absent from data collection and monitoring mechanisms in international development and global health. However, some isolated data collection eff orts have documented the experiences of people with disabilities in a few low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). The upcoming High...