Abstract:

People with disabilities, commonly classified as disadvantaged groups on the labour market, are characterized by various impairments and forced to seek alternative forms of social participation. As a result of their dysfunctions and health problems they remain outside the labour market, work in sheltered workshops or for employers receiving the minimum wage. Some of them leave the labour market and choose state aid, whereas others look for another form of participation in this market by choosing self-employment as a specific form of entrepreneurship. The purpose of this article is to determine the interest of people with disabilities in taking up self-employment and whether their health status and other health conditions such as various types of diseases and their intensity facilitate the decision about undertaking self-employment or remain major barriers in this respect.