Disability and Skill Mismatch

32 Pages Posted: 15 Oct 2009

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Melanie K. Jones

University of Wales Swansea

Peter J. Sloane

University of Wales, Swansea; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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: skills, disability, job matching, earnings, job satisfaction

JEL Classification: I0, J2, J3, J7, J24, J31

Suggested Citation

Jones, Melanie K. and Sloane, Peter J., Disability and Skill Mismatch. IZA Discussion Paper No. 4430, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1489253 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1489253

Melanie K. Jones (Contact Author)

University of Wales Swansea ( email )

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Peter J. Sloane

University of Wales, Swansea ( email )

Singleton Park
Singleton Park
Swansea, Wales SA2 8PP
United Kingdom

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

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