Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51664 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5849
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
By utilizing the 2008 Athens Area Study (AAS) data set, this study investigates four aspects of job satisfaction - total pay, promotion prospects, respect received from one's supervisor, and total job satisfaction - between healthy and heath-impaired employees. Health impaired employees are found to be less satisfied according to all job satisfaction measures even when a large number of productivity features, and job characteristics are controlled for. The outcomes suggest also that women are more satisfied with their jobs than men are, regardless of health status. Moreover, the estimations show that health impaired employees' job satisfaction is affected more than healthy employees' job satisfaction by adverse mental health symptoms (life dissatisfaction). Finally, health impaired employees are found to become more satisfied with their jobs with time after disability onset. The study concludes that health impaired employees may have higher expectations about what they will obtain from their work, and that they may have job satisfaction adjustments.
Subjects: 
health impairments
job satisfaction
ordered probit model
switching regression model
two-step quasi-likelihood exogeneity test
JEL: 
J10
J28
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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