Per Germundsson

Biographic Data

ID4498345
NAMEPer Germundsson
GIVEN NAMESPer
FAMILY NAMEGermundsson
SIGNATUREGERMUNDSSON P
AFFILIATIONSSwedish Institute
ORCID0000-0002-0987-4287
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Motives for self-employment among people with disabilities in a Swedish context

    Open AccessPer Germundsson, Maria NorstedtARTICLEAlter2024

    People with disabilities are more often excluded from working life than others; one way of promoting inclusion in the labor market is self-employment. The aim of this article is to add to the knowledge about the establishment motives for starting one’s own business among people with disabilities and reduced working capacity in Sweden. Data were collected from 16 people with disabilities across Sweden. Ten semi-structured interviews with self-empl…

  • Motives for entrepreneurship and establishing one’s own business among people with disabilities

    Open AccessMaria Norstedt, Per GermundssonARTICLEDisability & Society2023

    As people with disabilities often face difficulties entering the labour market, entrepreneurship and self-employment are often regarded as an opportunity to gain employment and earn a living. This article presents a scoping review that aims to investigate what establishment motives previous studies have identified for self-employment and entrepreneurship among people with disabilities. Four themes emerged: economic motives; flexibility and self-d…

  • Self-employment and disability

    Open AccessMaria Norstedt, Per GermundssonARTICLEJournal of Comparative Social Work2023References: 1

    In many countries, self-employment has become a common strategy for achieving inclusion in the labour market. Studies show that the occurrence of self-employment depends not only on individual motives, but also on existing policies and support. In Sweden, labour market measures to include people with disabilities are primarily organized to achieve inclusion through traditional forms of employment, though one tool offered by the Swedish Public Emp…

  • Disability and Social Representations Theory

    Vinaya Manchaiah, Berth Danermark et al.BOOKDisability and Social Representatio…2019

  • French and Swedish teachers' social representations of social workers

    Berth Danermark, Ulrika Englund et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Social Work2013Cited by: 6References: 1

    Collaboration on children at risk is essential, but our knowledge about inter-professional collaboration between social workers and educators is limited. The aim of this study is twofold: (1) to describe French and Swedish teachers' social representation of social workers; and (2) to compare these social representations. The French sample group is composed of 77 secondary school teachers (of students from 11 to 18 years old), and the Swedish samp…

  • Interagency collaboration in vocational rehabilitation for persons with mental health problems

    Per Germundsson, Helene Hillborg et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2011Cited by: 5References: 3

    There is an aspiration and policy within the European Union to fully involve persons with disabilities in the community; this implies an opportunity to gainful employment. A large percentage of disabled persons remain unemployed despite this policy, especially persons with mental health problems. This study aims at investigating how people with mental health problems and caseworkers in different agencies experience the vocational rehabilitation p…