[Guidelines for employment policies in Europe and national action plans: opportunities for people with disabilities].
The scourge of unemployment has been roundly identified throughout Europe as the most pressing social and economic problem on the current political agenda. At Luxembourg in November 1997, the European Jobs Summit brought Europe's leaders together in an historic occasion that mapped out employment guidelines for Europe. The Luxembourg Jobs Summit agreed a set of guidelines for the Member States employment policy under four pillars, employability, entrepreneurship, adaptability, and equal opportunities. One guideline referred to promoting integration of people with disabilities into working life. The Member States subsequently agreed to incorporate the Guidelines into national employment action plans. The question of this paper is, to what extent do employment guidelines and National Action Plans improve the opportunities of disabled persons? This paper seeks to establish a set of fundamental issues concerning employment and disability. Included in this analysis are recommendations in order to achieve a better presence of disabled people in National Action Plans in future.
Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Wien, Osterreich.
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D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004651:Employment; D016832:Employment, Supported; D005062:European Union; D005858:Germany; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D011640:Public Policy