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Challenges faced By People with Disability for Getting Jobs: Entrepreneurship Solution for Unemployment

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Norhasyikin Rozali, Shuhairimi Abdullah, Siti Intan Diyana Ishak, Alia Ashrani Azmi, Nurul Husna Akhmar

Pages 303-308 Received: 21 Jan, 2017 Revised: 09 Feb, 2017 Published Online: 11 Mar, 2017

http://dx.doi.org/10.46886/IJARBSS/v7-i3/2738
A job is the essence of the issue of people with disabilities is unemployed, apart from the issue of education, welfare, comfort, and help and so on. Entrepreneurship should be viewed as a new stepping stone to creating jobs people with disabilities. The challenges of this field and the entrepreneurial approach as a proactive step to help these people solve the employment problem. However, entrepreneurship and the disabled still new and needs to be explored more widely for the benefit of persons with disabilities.
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