abstract: 'People with disabilities in Australia face significant employment

  barriers. Research and policy initiatives over the past fifteen years

  have consistently emphasised the benefits of vocational education and

  training generally, and apprenticeship and traineeships specifically, as

  leading to positive vocational pathways and employment outcomes for

  people with disabilities. However, there is a dearth of evidence of

  graduate outcomes for apprentices and trainees with disabilities. This

  paper presents the employment outcomes including hours of work and

  salaries for a cohort of apprenticeship and traineeship graduates with

  and without disabilities across a three-year longitudinal Australian

  study. Overall, there are positive employment outcomes for the research

  participants although graduates without a disability achieved better

  outcomes than graduates with disabilities and participants in receipt of

  the disability support pension had significantly lower wages than other

  participants with disabilities. There are indications that the gap in

  outcomes between graduates with and without disabilities has reduced

  over time, although generalisability of the findings may be limited by

  the observational study design. Nevertheless, the study has confirmed

  positive employment and related outcomes for apprenticeship and

  traineeship graduates with disabilities, which were sustained, or

  arguably improved, over the three-year period covered by the study.'
affiliation: 'Thoresen, SH (Corresponding Author), Curtin Univ, Sch Occupat Therapy
  Social Work \& Speech Pathol, Bentley, Australia.

  Thoresen, Stian H.; Cocks, Errol; Parsons, Richard, Curtin Univ, Sch Occupat Therapy
  Social Work \& Speech Pathol, Bentley, Australia.'
author: Thoresen, Stian H. and Cocks, Errol and Parsons, Richard
author-email: s.thoresen@ecu.edu.au
author_list:
- family: Thoresen
  given: Stian H.
- family: Cocks
  given: Errol
- family: Parsons
  given: Richard
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/1034912X.2019.1699648
earlyaccessdate: DEC 2019
eissn: 1465-346X
files: []
issn: 1034-912X
journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISABILITY DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION
keywords: 'Apprenticeships; Australia; employment; graduate outcomes; longitudinal

  study; people with disabilities; traineeships; vocational education and

  training'
keywords-plus: PEOPLE
language: English
month: SEP 3
number: '5'
number-of-cited-references: '34'
pages: 702-716
papis_id: acc931ba949697f4a031d23c180f46b8
ref: Thoresen2021threeyear
times-cited: '2'
title: Three Year Longitudinal Study of Graduate Employment Outcomes for Australian
  Apprentices and Trainees with and without Disabilities
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000501555400001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '9'
volume: '68'
web-of-science-categories: Education, Special; Rehabilitation
year: '2021'