ABSTRACT
This chapter tests the diversity in the formal job inclusion of people with disability (PWD) in the city of Rio de Janeiro since 2000, after the employment Quotas Act became operational and major para-sports events happened in the city. We show different trends for different PWD groups over the years. The first decade analyzed here shows gains in the formal employment for Rio’s adult PWD group but a decline for people with intellectual disability (PWID). Coincidentally, PWID were excluded from the Paralympics after Sydney 2000 and only came back in London 2012. In the 2010s, PWIDs formal employment rates increased four times more than other PWD. These increases were greater in companies whose number of employees requires their compliance with the Quotas Act. However, in the post-Olympic period, we noted a sharper decrease in PWD’s formal employment and even more so for PWID. In general, there were labor achievements for the PWD but losses for the PWID in the first decade of the millennium, while the second decade was, at least until Rio2016, particularly favorable for the latter.
