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Disability and Skill Mismatch *
Author(s) -
JONES MELANIE K.,
SLOANE PETER J.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00659.x
Subject(s) - earnings , discretion , labour economics , work (physics) , industrial relations , demographic economics , psychology , economics , business , accounting , political science , management , law , engineering , mechanical engineering
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that disabled workers are significantly more likely to be skill mismatched in the labour market and that the adverse effect of mismatch on earnings is particularly acute for this group. Giving workers more discretion over how they perform their work may significantly reduce these negative effects.