Employment decisions of household heads with non-schooling children with special health care needs
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2016-05
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Abstract
Children and adolescents with disabilities comprise the greater number of persons with
disabilities (PWDs) here in our country. With the continuous growth in the number of PWD
cases each year, the need to address these problems should be of utmost priority. With this, much
attention, care, and time should be given, especially by those who are closest to them. Therefore,
it is equally essential to note that although disability affects the individual, attention should be
given to its effects on the people around them, particularly their parents.
The objective of this paper is to determine the likelihood that the household head would
enter the labor force with the presence of a non-schooling child with special healthcare needs in
the household. The data used in the study was from the 2013 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey.
A logistic model was used to analyze the relationship between the likelihood of a
household head to work and various household head and household characteristics. The results of
the study indicate that the presence of non-schooling children with special healthcare needs in
the household increases the likelihood of the household head to join the labor force. Other factors
that affect the household head’s likelihood to work include the greater number of household
members currently not attending school and when the household is below poverty threshold,
presence of non-schooling children, the household head’s sex being male, the presence of a child
working, if the spouse or partner of the male household head is working, the household head’s
age, if the household head is at least a high school graduate, if the household head’s location of
residence is in an urban area, and if the household has other sources of income.
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illness, disability, household head, labor force participation