Remote Work Opportunities for the Persons with Disabilities: A Literature Review

De la Roche, Marcelle and Simović, Vladimir (2023) Remote Work Opportunities for the Persons with Disabilities: A Literature Review. Economic Analysis, 56 (2). pp. 28-38. ISSN 2560-3949

Text 1598-Article Text-8204-1-10-20231218.pdf - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. Download (359kB)

Abstract

This research represents one of the first literature reviews of remote work opportunities for persons with disabilities. Given the fact that persons with disabilities represent almost 15% of the total world population and that this category of people is facing huge challenges in terms of employment inclusion and risk of poverty, it is obvious that remote work arrangements provide excellent employment opportunities for persons with disabilities. This argument, in combination with the enormous growth of remote work platforms and digital entrepreneurship, represents a key reason for the rising interest of the research community in this topic. The aim of this research was to identify the current state of the academic literature in the area of remote work opportunities and persons with disabilities and to identify gaps in the current body of knowledge as a basis for future research recommendations. Insight, critique, and transformative redefinition of the current academic literature on remote work and persons with disabilities were applied to analyze and synthesize the literature. In total, around 80 articles were analyzed by theoretical focus, methodology, time, and geography. Google Scholar search was conducted during December 2022 using a comprehensive search strategy built around the following major topics: 1. persons with disabilities in the labor market, 2. remote work and the persons with disabilities, and 3. remote work capacity of the persons with disabilities. The results of this research show that the research on the remote work capacity of persons with disabilities is fragmented and that more studies covering different aspects of remote work opportunities for persons with disabilities are needed, especially those that will be quantitative in their nature and more integrative. This research has contributed towards a better understanding of the literature gaps in regard to remote work opportunities for persons with disabilities and points to some future research directions such as skills and competencies of persons with disabilities for remote work, the challenges of remote work for persons with disabilities, and the requirements of the remote work platforms and other remote work opportunities.

Actions (login required)

View Item