Job satisfaction and disabilitylower expectations about jobs or a matter of health?

  1. Pagán, Ricardo
  2. Malo, Miguel Ángel
Revista:
Spanish economic review

ISSN: 1435-5469

Año de publicación: 2009

Volumen: 11

Número: 1

Páginas: 51-74

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.1007/S10108-008-9043-9 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Otras publicaciones en: Spanish economic review

Resumen

This article focuses on the analysis of the reported differentials of job satisfaction for disabled and non-disabled individuals. Using the Spanish data of the European Community Household Panel during the period 1995–2001, we estimate a job satisfaction equation for each group and evaluate job satisfaction differentials through the Oaxaca-Blinder methodology. The results show that disabled individuals are more likely to be more satisfied in their jobs than non-disabled ones, but only after controlling for other variables. Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition shows the greater importance of the returns in job satisfaction for disabled people, which is supported by explanations based on the lower expectations about jobs of disadvantaged groups.

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