Using findings from two studies conducted in British Columbia, Canada, that examined
income and employment supports for people with psychiatric disabilities we argue that …

BACKGROUND: Government policy shapes and is shaped by society's views of important
social issues such as employment among people with disabilities. OBJECTIVE: This article …

In recent years, western governments influenced by neoliberalism have emphasized paid
work as a key route to social inclusion and community participation for people with …

Social Security Administration disability programs are expensive, growing, and headed
toward bankruptcy. People with psychiatric disabilities now constitute the largest and most …

Assisting persons with serious mental illness to work in the competitive labor market remains
a difficult task for the industrialized nations, in part because two powerful public policy …

A major public policy problem is the extremely low labor force participation of people with
severe mental illness coupled with their overrepresentation on the public disability rolls. This …

Mental health disability imposes an enormous cost to patients, families, and society. Across
free market countries, the rate of mental health disability is growing and now constitutes …

Recent evaluations by the US General Accounting Office and the National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill of reemployment efforts of the federal-state vocational rehabilitation program …

Abstract The Americans with Disabilities Act is both a liberal civil rights bill and a labour
economics bill meant to increase the employment of disabled persons. It identifies the …

Conclusion In the absence of antistigma efforts directed toward the business community,
one wonders if the growing awareness of the productivity costs associated with mental …