Unemployment and Job Search Behavior among People with Disabilities during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany.

ABSTRACT: Not much is known about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the labor market experiences of people with disabilities. Since they constitute a generally disadvantaged group in the labor market, it is important to scrutinize whether their position has worsened during these difficult times and how they reacted with regard to their job search behavior. We therefore used data for the year 2020 from a large German panel (Panel Arbeitsmarkt und Soziale Sicherung, PASS), in order to scrutinize the prevalence of unemployment among people with disabilities (N = 739) during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The factors that affected their unemployment status were also analyzed. The study found that people with legally recognized disabilities were more often unemployed than non-disabled p

SUBMITTER: Paul KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10252648 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature