Although there are international, European Union and Latvian legal and regulatory frameworks and various policy planning initiatives, the inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market sti

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Disability Disadvantage: Experimental Evidence of Hiring Discrimination against Wheelchair Users (2021) · doi

  Although observational research and laboratory experiments provide indicative evidence of its existence, few studies have used randomized field experiments such as correspondence studies to investigate the occurrence of disability discrimination.

  Keywords: experiments observational laboratory provide indicative evidence existence used randomized field correspondence investigate occurrence disability discrimination
• Disability discrimination in hiring: A systematic review (2025) · doi

  Despite well-documented disability differentials in employment rates globally, there is only limited research using experimental methods to study discrimination in recruitment, which may constitute a key pathway through which the disability employment gap is sustained.

  Keywords: disability employment despite well documented differentials rates globally there limited using experimental discrimination recruitment constitute
• Legal and policy framework of employment for people with disabilities in Latvia (2018) · doi

  Although there are international, European Union and Latvian legal and regulatory frameworks and various policy planning initiatives, the inclusion of people with disabilities in the labour market still remains an open topic.

  Keywords: there international european union latvian legal regulatory frameworks various policy planning initiatives inclusion people disabilities
• Connecting Employers With People Who Have Intellectual Disability (2011) · doi

  Further, an examination of employer views of people with intellectual disability suggests that effective connections remain elusive between employers and employment service programs that support job seekers with intellectual disability.

  Keywords: intellectual disability further examination employer views people suggests effective connections remain elusive employers employment service