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Disability and Skill Mismatch

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Jones, Melanie K. () (University of Wales, Swansea)
Sloane, Peter J. () (University of Wales, Swansea)

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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.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 4430.

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Keywords: skills; disability; job matching; earnings; job satisfaction;

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I0 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General
J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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