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The adjusted labour force participation rate increases to 20.0%, the gap
between disabled and non-disabled in terms of labour force participation rate
moves from 35.3% to approximately 29.0%. which means that a part of the
disabled population is out of the labour market not only because of disability,
but it is the combined effect of age and disability.
Figure 4: Adjusted and unadjusted unemployement rate for peolple with and
without disability

with disability Without disability

27%

20%
16% 16%

Unadjuste unemployement rate Adjusted unemployement rate

Source: 2014 Population and Housing Census of Morocco

The unemployment rate is also influenced by the age structure, eleven
percentage point difference in unemployment rate between people with and
without disability, working age individuals with a disability experience higher
rate of unemployment than their non-disabled peers, it is important to
determine the real gap and to understand exactly why they face greater
constraints in finding a job.

4. Discussion and Conclusion
Because of the strong connection between disability prevalence and age,
and the changing nature of barriers, and the impact of age of onset on the
impact of disability, clearly, age adjustment should be made, for clarification
purpose, let’s take the example of education, access to education in general is
increasing over time. Just looking at people without disabilities, you would
expect to see primary school completion to be falling as you look at older
cohorts. Add to that the fact that, hopefully, the barriers to education for
disabled people should be falling. So we might think we will have lower overall
education rates for older people but bigger gaps because there were barriers
long ago. But probably not, because this is even more complicated because
most older people with disabilities acquired their disability after their

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