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A Comparison of the Functional Criteria of Disability with the Medical Criteria by Their Effects on Disability Employment Probability

Whanshick Yoo 1 권기돈 2

1한국장애인고용촉진공단고용개발원
2한국장애인고용공단 고용개발원

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ABSTRACT

This article examines what difference the functional criteria of disability based on the ICF make tothe probability of disabled people’s being employed, relative to the medical criteria based on theICD which are currently used in Korea. Using the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled,this article conducts probit and other analyses of the effect of functional disability on the probabilityof employment against medical disability. The result shows that functionally disabled peopleare much less likely to be employed in the competitive labor market than are medically but notnecessarily functionally disabled people. This suggests that there is a wide gap between the functionaland medical criteria of disability. In light of this result, this article makes a case for a transition from the medical to functional criteria of disability in the implementation of disability employmentpolicies in Korea.

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