Job satisfaction and disability: lower expectations about jobs or a matter of health?

• Autores: Ricardo Pagán Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel Malo Ocaña
• Localización: Spanish economic review, ISSN 1435-5469, Vol. 11, Nº 1, 2009, págs. 51-74
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.