Syftet med uppsatsen var att utifrån arbetsförmedlares uppfattning undersöka förutsättningar för personer med funktionsnedsättning att etablera sig på den reguljära arbetsmarknaden. En kvalitativ metod har använts för att uppnå studiens syfte. Fem intervjuer genomfördes med yrkesverksamma arbetsförmedlare på Arbetsförmedlingen. Uppsatsens teoretiska ansats kan beskrivas genom de tre perspektiven individuell, strukturell samt organisatorisk nivå. Studien visar att enligt arbetsförmedlare har personer med funktionsnedsättning trots fördjupat stöd från Arbetsförmedlingen svårt att etablera sig på arbetsmarknaden. Ett centralt skäl till att personer med funktionsnedsättning står utanför arbetsmarknaden finns på strukturell nivå då rädsla och okunskap bland arbetsgivare bidrar till en exkluderande arbetsmarknad för kategorin. Vidare upplever arbetsförmedlare att det fördjupade stöd som finns på Arbetsförmedlingen fungerar men att standardiserade styrdokument och ökande administration utgör en begränsning på organisatorisk nivå för kategorin. Arbetsförmedlare uppger att få begränsningar finns hos den arbetssökande enskilda individen. / The purpose of the study was to, based on the perspective of employment officers, examine the conditions for people with disabilities to establish themselves on the labour market. A qualitative method was used to achieve the purpose of the study. Five employment officers were interviewed. Individual, structural and organizational level were used as the essay’s theoretical approach. The study showed that even though people with disabilities are given enhanced support from Arbetsförmedlingen, they are still excluded from the labour market. One reason people with disabilities are excluded is because of employers’ fear and lack of knowledge of the meaning of disabilities. The employment officers stated that the enhanced support given by Arbetsförmedlingen operates well but strict regulations and administration were described as limitations on an organizational level. Employment officers stated there were few reasons on the individual level as to why people with disabilities are excluded from the labour market.

The aim of my diploma paper is summing up of graduates´ unemployment in southern Bohemia. The purpose of the paper is to create a compact image of labour market in the Czech Republic and to describe main factors influencing this market in the Czech Republic. My paper should touch state unemployment policy, to chart unemployment in southern Bohemia with the reflection on graduates´ unemployment, chart the structure of unemployed graduates, their possibilities at the labour market in the Czech Republic, to propose possibilities for the decrease of graduates´ unemployment in southern Bohemia. My survey is based on the data from Labour Market Situation Report from several Bureaus of Labour, data from Czech Statistic Office and Ministry of Labour and Social Issues. The graduates themselves are one off the most risk companies from the people who are economically active. The claiming of these groups is worse. The graduates are disadvantaged in comparison with other job applicants {--} less praxes, missing work habits and lox experience. The graduates´ unemployment rage is highly influenced by economical situation in our country, total unemployment, free working station offer degree and rate between supply and demand. It is also influenced by educational structure of graduates at the same time. The employers´ interest in graduates has been increasing. The loss of people at qualified positions is very important {--} firms are forced to offer free positions even to the people with smaller or no praxes. Another reason for the increase is policy development itself, primarily in financial sphere, car industry and in services. Last but not least, graduates´ attractively has been increasing hand in hand with improving quality of their profiles.

This thesis presents three essays, each seeking to deepen our understanding of labour markets. The first essay studies the response of real wages and hours of new hires to the business cycle during the UK’s Great Recession. The second essay analysis in how far the assumption of rational expectations in the Mortensen-Pissarides model is required for the economy to converge to an equilibrium. In particular, it asks if it is possible for economic agents to use simple linear forecast rules and still ensure convergence to the rational expectations equilibrium. The final essay seeks to determine whether labour income shares at the sectoral level are constant across countries, as is usually assumed in the literature, and whether this assumption quantitatively matters. Therefore, it takes the input-output structures across countries into account, and conducts a development accounting exercise. Real wages and hours in the Great Recession: Evidence from firms and their entry-level jobs Using employer-employee panel data, I provide novel facts on how real wages and working hours within jobs responded to the UK’s Great Recession. In contrast to previous studies, my data enables me to address the cyclical composition of jobs. I show that firms were able to respond to the Great Recession with substantial real wage cuts and by recruiting more part-time workers. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate led to an average decline in real hourly wages of 2.8 per cent for new hires and 2.6 per cent for job stayers. Hours of new hires in entry-level jobs were also substantially procyclical, while job-stayer hours were nearly constant. My findings suggest that models assuming rigid labour costs of new hires are not helpful for understanding the behaviour of unemployment over the business cycle. Unemployment and econometric learning I apply well-known results of the econometric learning literature to the Mortensen-Pissarides real business cycle model. Agents can always learn the unique rational expectations equilibrium (REE), for all possible well-defined sets of parameter values, by using the minimum-state-variable solution to the model and decreasing gain learning. From this perspective, the assumption of rational expectations in the model could be seen as reasonable. But using a parametrisation with UK data, simulations show that the speed of convergence to the REE is slow. This type of learning dampens the cyclical response of unemployment to small structural shocks. Measuring sectoral income shares: Accounting for input-output structures across countries I use input-output tables to measure the labour income shares of the goods and the services sector for a large cross-section of mostly developed countries. I present two novel findings: sectoral labour income shares significantly increase with the level of development, and within-country differences between these income shares are uncorrelated with the level of development. These cross-country differences are not caused by variation in the input-output structure or final demand, but originate at the production-side of the economy. I measure sectoral total factor productivity using a development accounting framework to assess the quantitative importance of my findings. The goods sector of less developed countries is relatively less productive than the services sector; assuming that the values of the sectoral labour income shares across countries are identical to their corresponding U.S. values leads to an underestimation of productivity differences across countries. All findings are robust to different adjustments for the labour income of the self-employed.

Cette thèse doctorale est encadrée par le projet TIES, “The Integration of the European Second Generation” qui a pour objectif d’étudier comparativement différents aspects de l’intégration des jeunes enfants d’immigrés procédant de la Turquie, de l’ex Yougoslavie et du Maroc. Le noyau du projet est une enquête à indicateurs multiples qui a été appliquée sur des descendants et des non descendants d’immigrés internationaux. Le terme “deuxième génération” recouvre des personnes ayant entre 18 et 35 ans avec, au moins, un parent immigré, et nées dans le pays d’immigration de leurs géniteurs. L’enquête a été appliquée dans 15 villes de huit pays européens. Dans chaque ville on a enquêté 250 descendants d’un ou de plusieurs groupes d’immigrés et 250 descendants de non immigrés. Le questionnaire organisé en modules, embrasse un grand éventail de sujets. En Espagne ont participé 1000 personnes au total: 500 descendants et 500 non descendants d’immigrés marocains et le travail de terrain a été complété entre les mois de janvier et décembre 2008. Etant donné que l’Espagne ne possède ni statistiques officielles ni études précédentes d’envergure sur les enfants adultes d’immigrés nés dans le pays, l’échantillon TIES constitue une importante source de connaissance de ce groupe d’habitants.L’Institut Universitaire d’Études sur les Migrations (Madrid, Espagne), responsable de la mise en place de l’enquête TIES en Espagne, est par ailleurs l’institution d’accueil pour la réalisation de cette thèse doctorale. Ceci grâce au fait que le projet TIES était associé au Marie Curie Research Training Network (TIES-RTN), d’une durée de trois ans. La thèse est inscrite en accord de cotutelle entre l’Université de Paris Ouest-La Défense (ancienne Paris X-Nanterre, France) et l’Université de Buenos Aires (Argentine). Elle est dirigée respectivement par les Docteurs Maria Eugenia Zavala de Cosio et Susana Novick. Le diplôme décerné est celui de Docteur en Démographie et Sociologie. / This thesis is in line with the European comparative research project named TIES -The Integration of the European Second Generation, about the integration of young adult children of immigrants from Turkey, former Yugoslavia and Morocco. We analyse data from the Spanish TIES survey which was conducted in Barcelona and Madrid in 2008 and applied to 500 Children of Moroccan Immigrants (CMI) and 500 members of the comparison group of national origin. The aim of the thesis is to determine whether the labour market factors that make the immigrants vulnerable are replicated in the next generation, or otherwise the integration of the “second generation” is taking place in similar conditions to those of most Spaniards. Social capital and ethnic discrimination are incorporated into the analysis as intervening variables. The CMI “inherit” from their parents a social origin linked to the lower class, and their membership of a strongly stigmatized minority group. At the same time, these young people have, in principle, some crucial resources that should enable them to reach a better social status than their parents’ one: educative paths and the rights of citizenship equal to most of their Spanish peers. Our results show that the CMI share with the majority group similar labour market statuses. However, the CMI go through a labour market transition that will probably reduce their future opportunities for upward mobility. We carried out some multivariate analyses that added explanatory power with regard to the importance of the immigrant origin on labour market integration. The labour market penalizes the younger workers without work experience, regardless of their skills and migration background. The use of social capital to get a job is associated with lower skilled occupations and early ethnic networks. Moreover, these personal contacts do not guarantee to reach advantageous positions in the labour market. Barcelona appears to be a more hostile context towards some minority groups to which the CMI may feel to belong. Nevertheless, the respondents in Barcelona do support the anti-discrimination policies. In short, the formation of ethnic minorities resulting from the international migration is a phenomenon “under construction” in Spain. In that context, the children of immigrants may play a major role in the social construction of ethnicity, as far as they begin to occupy specific positions in the labour market stratification. This may nourish, for instance, the hypothesis of the “new ethnic proletariat” growth. Spain faces the challenge to move over from the “immigration” rhetoric to a new rhetoric based on the “ethnic groups”. In any case, it seems obvious that insisting on the idea of the immigration as being a social problem is an obstinate risk. This might attach the new “second generations” to a stereotype and to a social position which merely reduce the life opportunities they deserve. The case studied here is exemplary in the Spanish context, since it can provide with useful knowledge tools vis-à-vis the history of the more recent groups of immigrants arrived from diverse origins and their descendants.

The economic crisis faced by Spain, forced the Spanish government to conduct several reforms in labor legislation in order to address the high rates of unemployment, which led greater flexibility about worker protection, reflected more intensively about dismissal labor. Thus, this article will develop the most important edges of this new legal regime of dismissal according to Spanish labor regulations. / La crisis económica que afrontó España, obligo al Gobierno Español a realizar una serie de reformas en la legislación laboral a fin de afrontar las altas tasas de desempleo conllevando a la flexibilización de la protección del trabajador, la cual se manifestó con mayor intensidad en la institución jurídica del despido laboral. En razón a ello, es que el presente artículo desarrollará las aristas más importantes de este nuevo régimen jurídico del despido de acuerdo a la normativa laboral española.

L'entrée dans la vie adulte est un processus plus ou moins étalé dans le temps, au cours duquel les jeunes connaissent différentes transitions : du départ de chez les parents à un logement indépendant, de la fin des études à l'insertion sur le marché du travail, du célibat à une vie en couple. Dans le contexte d'une société massivement scolarisée les transitions entre ces événements ont été modifiées. La majorité des étudiants acquiert ainsi leur autonomie résidentielle tout en étant pour une large partie d'entre eux encore dépendants financièrement de leurs parents. L'insertion sur le marché du travail de manière stable se fait à un âge plus tardif. Pour autant de plus en plus d'étudiants exercent une activité rémunérée en parallèle de leurs études. L'installation conjugale se décide au cours des études pour une minorité d'étudiants, mais pour la majorité d'entre eux ce moment est reporté après une insertion sur le marché du travail pérenne. Tout au long de ce travail ces différents événements ont été analysés pour mieux saisir ce processus complexe d'entrée dans la vie adulte. Les données sur lesquelles s'appuie cette thèse sont de type longitudinales rétrospectives, mêlant à la fois une approche quantitative (Panel DEP 1989) et une approche qualitative (53 entretiens). Ces données nous ont permis d'élaborer une typologie des modes d'entrée dans la vie adulte et de mettre en lumière les interactions entre les différentes sphères (études, emploi, décohabitation, mise en couple, naissance des enfants). / The transition into adulthood is a process spread in time. It starts with people moving from their parents' homes, graduating and integrating the labour market, and moving into a coupled life. In a society with rising educational achievements, the timing of these life transitions has changed. Most students move into independent housing arrangements during their studies even though the majority are still financially dependent on parents. Full integration into the labour market happens at a later stage and most students have temporary jobs while studying. Moreover, most students do not settle down into a coupled life until the end of their education with few of them getting into couples during this phase. Throughout this thesis, these different events are studied in order to explore the complex transmissions into adulthood. This work relies on retrospective longitudinal data combining both the quantitative DEP Panel of 1989 and additional qualitative data based on 53 interviews. These data were used to identify a typology of modes of transition into adulthood and to shed light on the interactions between the different spheres: Study, employment, cohabitation, and the birth of children.

The status of women on the labour market and motherhood The main objective of this thesis is to analyse the position of women in the labour market in selected countries representing different models of family policy. The analysed countries are the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. As first step, there are introduced conditions for the reconciliation of work and family life in selected countries and in the context of legislative of European Union. As second step, there are analyzed the level of fertility and the position of women in the labour market. There are also examined impacts of reconciliation of work and family not only on reducing the impact of parenthood on women's employment, but also on the level of fertility. The last part of this thesis deals with the evaluation of the respondent's opinions from International Social Survey Programme 2012 by average scores and binary logistic regression. Topics of analysed questions are the employment of mothers with young children and the division of roles in the family. The results confirmed that in countries with better conditions for the reconciliation of work and family there are smaller impacts of parenthood on women's employment also there are higher fertility rates. In the Czech Republic, there are most...

The thesis deals with the issue of employment and unemployment, including its socio- economic aspects in the Ústí nad Labem region compared to the Czech Republic between years 2007 and 2015. The theoretical part describes the nature of unemployment (breakdowns, causes, impacts, unemployment solution) including the impact of macroeconomic indicators, fiscal and monetary policies, with particular respect to active employment policy. The practical part includes the analysis of the Ústí nad Labem Region itself and its employment and unemployment, taking into account the benchmark of the Czech Republic with a polemic on the effectiveness of employment policy and its settings. The thesis implements the SWOT analysis of the Ústí nad Labem Region, which describes weaknesses and strengths and identifies individual opportunities and threats. The data were gained from the Czech Statistical Office and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

SILVA, Grayceane Gomes da. Qualificação profissional de pessoas com deficiência para inserção no mercado de trabalho em Fortaleza. 2014. 137f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2014. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-01-19T13:49:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_ggsilva.pdf: 1427056 bytes, checksum: 8fd6cd992c62bdbd8678d4c97f635ce1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2015-01-19T15:34:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_ggsilva.pdf: 1427056 bytes, checksum: 8fd6cd992c62bdbd8678d4c97f635ce1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-01-19T15:34:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_dis_ggsilva.pdf: 1427056 bytes, checksum: 8fd6cd992c62bdbd8678d4c97f635ce1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / The present coursework proposed to comprehend how is occurring the process of insertion of people with disability in the labour market in Fortaleza, such as, which the professional qualification that is offered them. It intended, more specifically, analyze the questions referents the insertion of people with disability in the capitalist’s labour market, how configure the actions of professional qualification before the competence’s and employability rhetoric, beside of the importance that these people give to the work and the professional qualification. The methodological trajectory to undertake this study consisted of bibliographic and documental research and field research with application of semi structured interview with participants of the Warehouse assistant’s course of a specialized institution in the attendance of people with disability convened to the Labor and Social Development Office of the Ceará State (STDS). The trajectory of the people with disability is marked by social inequality and by the seclusion in institutions that directed to remove them to the collective relationships. In the last twenty years the social movements, have brought conquests, among these the insertion of some policies in the social field. So, from of legislation that obliged the recruitment of people with disability, the companies have to receive these people considered unproductive, add to that, before the competence’s rhetoric, is necessary ensure professional qualifications spaces for these people. So, the professional education for this group is offered, principally, in institutions of specialized attendance. In Fortaleza the courses are offered by these places, as from of a capitalist logic of to offer a formation in short period. The investigated institution realizes attendance for professional qualification, routing for the labour market and follow-up in the first months in the companies. The interviews were realized with six people, being four men and two women, with hearing loss, mental handicap and blindness. The schooling profile is of late access to the teaching levels, whereat only two concluded the high school, the others were participating of Yong and Adult Education, being that one had gave up to dedicate to the job. The participation in professional courses is related to the possibility of get a job, but two participants cited the choice by course for to consider interesting and a new learning. The meaning of to have a job second the interviewees is related to the idea of be dignifying, in the meaning that become more importants to the society, above can support oneself and to contribute to the support of the relatives. In the that be relative to professional experiences all had, even if for means of stage, above reports of informal jobs, with low salaries and without work rights. As from of the analyses realized in the investigative field we have how conclusion that the job for these people have a centralize for the subsistence guaranty, such as, that the professional qualification whereof participate are seen how possibility of to conquest a space of job, even not being in the area whereof the course the realized. The conclusions of our field investigation, added to the documental analyses and to the literary study pertinent, take us to conclude that although the people with disability find an opportunity of social insertion in the labour force experience, receive specific professional capacitation, still find, how the others people of the worker class, jettisoned of a full social insertion, input the selves structural conditions of de capitalist system and of the form historical of prejudice and discrimination that these people suffered along the time. / O presente trabalho se propôs a compreender como está ocorrendo o processo de inserção de pessoas com deficiência no mercado de trabalho em Fortaleza, bem como qual a qualificação profissional que lhes é oferecida. Objetivou, mais especificamente, analisar as questões referentes à inserção de pessoas com deficiência no mercado de trabalho capitalista, como se configuram as ações de qualificação profissional diante da retórica das competências e da empregabilidade, além da importância que essas pessoas dão ao trabalho e à qualificação profissional. A trajetória metodológica para empreender tal estudo se constituiu de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental e de pesquisa de campo com aplicação de entrevista semiestruturada junto aos participantes do curso de Auxiliar de Almoxarifado de uma instituição especializada no atendimento de pessoas com deficiência conveniada à Secretaria de Trabalho e Desenvolvimento Social do Estado do Ceará (STDS). A trajetória das pessoas com deficiência é marcada pela desigualdade social e pelo enclausuramento em instituições que visavam retirá-los do convívio coletivo. Nos últimos vinte anos, os movimentos sociais têm trazido conquistas, dentre elas a inserção de algumas políticas no campo social. Desse modo, a partir de legislação que obriga a contratação deste público, as empresas têm que receber essas pessoas tidas como improdutivas, além disso, diante da retórica das competências, é necessário garantir espaços de qualificação profissional para essas pessoas. Sendo assim, a educação profissionalizante para este grupo é oferecida, principalmente, em instituições de atendimento especializado. Em Fortaleza, os cursos são oferecidos por estes locais, a partir de uma lógica capitalista de oferecer uma formação em curto período. A instituição pesquisada realiza atendimento para qualificação profissional, encaminhamento para o mercado de trabalho e acompanhamento nos primeiros meses de trabalho nas empresas. As entrevistas foram realizadas com seis pessoas, sendo quatro homens e duas mulheres, com deficiência auditiva, intelectual ou visual. O perfil de escolaridade é de acesso tardio aos níveis de ensino, em que somente dois concluíram o ensino médio, os demais estavam participando de Educação de Jovens e adultos, sendo que um havia desistido para se dedicar ao trabalho. A participação em cursos profissionalizantes está relacionada à possibilidade de conseguir um emprego, mas dois participantes citaram a escolha pelo curso por considerar interessante e um aprendizado novo. O significado de ter um trabalho, segundo os entrevistados, está relacionado à ideia de ser dignificante, no sentido que se tornam mais importantes para a sociedade, além de poderem se sustentar e contribuir para o sustento dos familiares. No que se refere a experiências profissionais, todos as tiveram, mesmo que por meio de estágio, além de relatos de trabalho informal, com baixos salários e sem direitos trabalhistas. A partir das análises realizadas no campo investigativo, temos como dado conclusivo que o trabalho para essas pessoas tem uma centralidade para a garantia da subsistência, bem como que a qualificação profissional da qual participam é vista como possibilidade de conquistar uma vaga de emprego, mesmo não sendo na área da qual faz parte o curso a que tiveram acesso. As conclusões de nossa pesquisa de campo, somadas às análises documentais e ao estudo da literatura pertinente, nos levam a apontar que, embora as pessoas com deficiência encontrem uma oportunidade de inserção social na experiência laboral, passem por capacitações profissionais específicas, ainda se encontram, como os demais sujeitos da classe trabalhadora, alijados de uma plena inserção social, dada às próprias condições estruturais do sistema capitalista e das históricas formas de preconceito e discriminação que essas pessoas sofreram ao longo dos tempos.

SANTOS, F. E. L. Avaliação da política de emprego para pessoa com deficiência no Município de Maracanaú-Ce. 2011. 101 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Avaliação de Políticas Públicas) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Pro - Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Avaliação de Políticas Públicas, Fortaleza, 2011. / Submitted by Ana Paula Paula (mappufce@gmail.com) on 2012-03-22T18:51:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_Dis_FEdinaldaLSANTOS.pdf: 595604 bytes, checksum: 0dae5320698a6d97e8d810f9a4a3f428 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Josineide Góis(josineide@ufc.br) on 2012-03-28T16:27:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_Dis_FEdinaldaLSANTOS.pdf: 595604 bytes, checksum: 0dae5320698a6d97e8d810f9a4a3f428 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-03-28T16:27:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011_Dis_FEdinaldaLSANTOS.pdf: 595604 bytes, checksum: 0dae5320698a6d97e8d810f9a4a3f428 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / This study identified and evaluated the actions that strengthen the employment policy for persons with disabilities in the City of Maracanaú (CE). The study was quantitative research, as well as qualitative data that supported us in understanding the subjectivity of our subjects. The analysis method used was the Case Study. With the literature we obtained further studies, which allowed a parallel increase in the analysis. The fieldwork took place in the town of Marazion. The sample consisted of 127 persons with disabilities, and of these, 23 were families of disabled where we collect the data, 02 interviews with the psychologists of the Department of Human Resources for two companies and 01 technical SINE / IDT 01 and Technical Supervision Regional Labor. The survey of data from the subjects took place from March to August 2010. For the data collection was a questionnaire, interviews were conducted and also used a field diary. The research subjects were people with disabilities who are in and out of the labor market, families, professionals who provide services in public agencies and staffing companies. In the first part of the work has a historical approach of the different civilizations, drawing on authors as Bianchetti (1988), Skiliar (1997) and Cavalcante (2001). To reflect on people with disabilities and work with the concepts of prejudice, exclusion and stigma, the grounds was built with the study of authors such as Goffman (1988) and Sassaki (2006). To address issues pertaining to the work and its importance in human occupation from the perspective of people with disabilities, the theoretical basis was given to authors such as Schruber (2002) and Wagon (2004). To conclude the theoretical strands, worked as issues of citizenship and public policy from the perspective of social inclusion and legal support for people with disabilities, where we sought to authors such as Silva (2000) and Behring and Boschetti (2006) for dialogue. We conclude that, despite the presence of the barrier of prejudice and lack of knowledge and skill about the potentials of the disabled person, it is possible to prove, as was demonstrated in the experience of the project Apprentice, his capacity for labor market. This project forms an individual more productive, strengthening the fight to include these subjects in every sense of your life. / O presente trabalho identificou e avaliou as ações que consolidam a política de emprego para pessoas com deficiência no Município de Maracanaú, Estado do Ceará. O trabalho foi realizado com pesquisa quantitativa, bem como com dados qualitativos que nos apoiaram no entendimento da subjetividade dos nossos sujeitos. O método de análise utilizado foi o de Estudo de Caso. Com a pesquisa bibliográfica obteve-se aprofundamento dos estudos, que permitiu um reforço paralelo na análise. A pesquisa de campo realizou-se no município de Maracanaú. A amostra constituiu-se de 127 pessoas com deficiência, sendo que, destas, 23 foram familiares de deficientes, 02 entrevistas feitas com as psicólogas do Setor de Recursos Humanos de duas empresas e 01 técnico do SINE/IDT e 01 técnico da Superintendência Regional do Trabalho. O levantamento dos dados junto aos sujeitos realizou-se no período de março a agosto de 2010. Para a coleta de dados foi aplicado um questionário, realizadas entrevistas e também utilizado o diário de campo. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram pessoas com deficiência que estão dentro e fora do mercado de trabalho, familiares, profissionais que prestam serviços em órgãos públicos e recursos humanos de empresas. Na primeira parte do trabalho tem-se uma abordagem histórica das diferentes civilizações, recorrendo a autores como Bianchetti (1988), Skiliar (1997) e Cavalcante (2001). Para refletir sobre pessoa com deficiência e trabalhar com os conceitos de preconceito, exclusão e estigma, a fundamentação construiu-se com o estudo de autores como Goffman (1988) e Sassaki (2006). Para tratar sobre questões pertinentes ao trabalho e sua importância na ocupação humana na perspectiva da pessoa com deficiência, o embasamento teórico se deu com autores como Schruber (2002) e Carreta (2004). Para finalizar os eixos teóricos, trabalhou-se as questões de cidadania e políticas públicas na perspectiva da inclusão social e amparo legal para a pessoa com deficiência; onde se buscou autores como Silva (2000) e Behring e Boschetti (2006) para dialogar. Conclui-se que, apesar de ainda existir a barreira do preconceito e da falta de conhecimento e qualificação a respeito das potencialidades da pessoa com deficiência, é possível comprovar, como foi demonstrada na experiência do Projeto Aprendiz, sua capacidade para o mercado de trabalho. Tal projeto forma um indivíduo cada vez mais produtivo, reforçando a luta pela inclusão destes sujeitos em todos os sentidos de sua vida