El empleo de las personas con discapacidad en la gran recesión: ¿Son los Centros Especiales de Empleo una excepción?

Abstract

The current economic crisis has reduced substantially the number of employment. However, statistics from the Public Employment Service shows an increase in the number of jobs contracts signed by disabled people. The main reason in that Sheltered Employment Centers have raised largely their contracting. On the opposite, ordinary firms have reduced hiring with disabled workers. These data seem to show an upward trend in Sheltered Employment Centers while disabled people in regular employment diminishes. This conclusion is against the aim of the Social Integration for Disabled People Act, although it seems that the SEC´s acting as "employment refuge" of disabled people in times of crisis.