Barriers to employment for persons with disabilities as correlate of economic contribution to national development: the case of Owerri, Nigeria

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Barriers to employment for persons with disabilities as correlate of economic contribution to national development: the case of Owerri, Nigeria

Original language description

Th is study investigated barriers to employment for persons with disabilities as correlate of economic contribution to national development: Th e case of Owerri, Nigeria. A survey of fi ft y (56) persons with disabilities of which 52 were applicants and four were already in the workforce in Owerri, Nigeria constituted the sample for the study. Th ree null hypotheses guided the study. A twenty (20) item questionnaire with a modifi ed four point Likert scale and reliability coeffi cient of 0.79 was used to canvass responses of the purposively sampled participants on barriers to employment for persons with disabilities as correlate of economic contribution to national development. The data collected were statistically analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis. Th e fi ndings revealed that social stigma, competitive Nigeria labour market and employers’ undue focus on the disability statistically relate with economic contribution to national development. Recommendations were made among others that there should be enactment of laws which will favour employment of persons with disabilities in public and organized private sectors. In this regard, a specifi c percentage or quota should be allotted to the persons with disabilities in compliance to UNESCO mandate. Similar laws are in operation in some developed countries; Nigeria should adopt such a law to give to these persons a pride of place in the society.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Exceptional People

ISSN

1805-4978

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

67-80

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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