abstract: 'There has been limited theoretical and empirical research into the role

  of workplace accommodations in enabling workers with and without

  impairments to remain in work. This study used the International

  Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) model to

  examine (a) whether workplace accommodations enable workers,

  particularly those with different impairments, to remain economically

  active; and (b) the predictors of the onset of work accommodations. Data

  from two waves of a large-scale longitudinal survey of disability in

  Great Britain, the Life Opportunities Survey (2009-2012) were analysed.

  2307 workers with an impairment and 4308 workers without an impairment

  were followed up for a year. Work accommodations appear to enable

  workers with impairments to remain economically active, especially those

  with mental impairments. There was no difference in the employment rates

  of workers with and without mental impairments who had two or more work

  accommodations, in contrast to the 10\% employment gap between workers

  with and without mental impairments who did not have any work

  accommodations. While there was no gender difference in the disability

  employment gap, barriers to employment related to caregiving were much

  greater for women compared to men. Moreover, only workers with incident

  pain impairments were associated with an increase in their work

  accommodations, not workers with incident mental impairments. Despite

  the evidence that workers with mental impairments could benefit

  considerably from workplace accommodations, they are less likely to have

  their workplace adjusted. The ICF model is particularly useful in

  analysing the role of work accommodations because it considers a much

  wider range of factors that are relevant not just to workers with

  different types of impairments, but are also relevant to the wider group

  of workers who use workplace accommodations.'
affiliation: 'Rouxel, P (Corresponding Author), Univ Hong Kong, Fac Social Sci, 11-F
  Jockey Club Tower,Centennial Campus, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.

  Chandola, Tarani, Univ Manchester, CMIST \& Social Stat, Manchester, Lancs, England.

  Chandola, Tarani; Rouxel, Patrick, Univ Hong Kong, Fac Social Sci, 11-F Jockey Club
  Tower,Centennial Campus, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.'
article-number: '114313'
author: Chandola, Tarani and Rouxel, Patrick
author-email: plrouxel@hku.hk
author_list:
- family: Chandola
  given: Tarani
- family: Rouxel
  given: Patrick
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114313
earlyaccessdate: AUG 2021
eissn: 1873-5347
files: []
issn: 0277-9536
journal: SOCIAL SCIENCE \& MEDICINE
keywords: 'Disability; Economically inactive; Impairment; ICF-Model; Mental health;

  Unemployment; Work accommodations; Work adjustments'
keywords-plus: 'TIME SICK LEAVE; EMPLOYEES; PEOPLE; INTERVENTIONS; BENEFITS; GENDER;

  MODEL'
language: English
month: SEP
number-of-cited-references: '48'
orcid-numbers: 'Chandola, Tarani/0000-0002-1864-3413

  Rouxel, Patrick/0000-0003-0330-554X'
papis_id: 2e9287dec971a05dc2b7c9aacc02496f
ref: Chandola2021roleworkplace
researcherid-numbers: 'Chandola, Tarani/I-3192-2013

  Rouxel, Patrick/AGH-0663-2022'
times-cited: '4'
title: The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment
  gap in the UK
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000691544800014
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '5'
volume: '285'
web-of-science-categories: 'Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health; Social Sciences,

  Biomedical'
year: '2021'