Abstract (eng)
This master thesis deals with the inclusion of people with disabilities in the Austrian labor market since the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities came into force in 2008. For the quantitative analysis, microcensus data of the supplementary modules "people with impairments" of the years 2007 and 2015 are used. In particular, I examine how different individual characteristics, including a disability, affect employment and how the effects have changed in 2007 and 2015. In this paper, the theoretical approaches "forms of inclusion and exclusion," "inclusion through roles," and "inclusion and exclusion through organizations" are used with regard to inclusion of people with disabilities in the Austrian labor market. The main factors influencing the employment of people with disabilities in the Austrian labor market are analogous to people without disabilities, age and gender. The degree of disability ranks between age and gender in terms of effect size. Over time, it should be emphasized that the increase in employment of people with disabilities can be observed at the age of 45 - 64 years. Furthermore, there is a negative trend in the employment rate of people with nervous or mental problems. Overall, we can observe an improvement over time between the years 2007 and 2015 regarding the employment of people with disabilities.