Disability and Skill Mismatch

Melanie K. Jones () and Peter J. Sloane ()
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Melanie K. Jones: Cardiff University
Peter J. Sloane: Swansea University

No 4430, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job satisfaction, the effects being stronger for the work-limited disabled. Giving workers more discretion over how they perform their work would significantly reduce these negative effects.

Keywords: earnings; job matching; disability; job satisfaction; skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I0 J2 J24 J3 J31 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2009-09
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Published - published in: Economic Record, 2010, 88 (s1), 101 - 114

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