NILS Working paper no 176. Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market
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2011
Authors
Jones, Melanie K
Mavromaras, Kostas
Sloane, Peter J
Wei, Zhang (NILS)
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National Institute of Labour Studies
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Abstract
We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction,
using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in
Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between
work-limiting disability and over-skilling, it appears that there is a positive relationship
between work-limiting disability and over-education, which is consistent with disability onset
leading to downward occupational movement, at least in relative terms. We find a negative
correlation between work-limiting disability and both earnings and job satisfaction. However,
there is only evidence of a causal relationship in terms of the latter, where the impact of
disability is found to be multifaceted.
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Employment, Disabilities, Earnings, Job satisfaction
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Jones, M.; Mavromaras, K.; Sloane, P.; Wei, Z. 2011. Disability and job mismatches in the Australian labour market. Working Paper No. 176/2011.