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Gender differences in job satisfaction among disabled workers
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0252270 (2021), PLoS ONE
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper explores the association between job satisfaction and gender for workers with disabilities, using data from the Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled, which interviews officially registered persons with disabilities in Korea. To take full advantage of the longitudinal data, we apply random-effects ordered probit models to investigate the underlying factors that affect gender differentials in job satisfaction. Our findings reveal that merely different work values between women and men do not account for the significantly higher job satisfaction among women. We suggest that workers’ expectations play a role in explaining why female workers are happier in the workplace than their male counterparts; that is, holding other factors constant, women’s expectations from jobs are lower than men’s. This hypothesis ispartiallysupported by the empirical analyses that gender differentials diminish among the highly educated workers, for whom there is less likely to be a gender gap in terms of job expectations.
- Subjects :
- Employment
Adult
Male
Panel survey
Adolescent
Economics
Political Science
Disabilities
Science
Social Sciences
Ordered probit
Jobs
Work values
Affect (psychology)
Job Satisfaction
Young Adult
Medical Conditions
Sex Factors
Sociology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Republic of Korea
Medicine and Health Sciences
Salaries
Humans
Disabled Persons
Occupations
Workplace
Association (psychology)
Aged
Labor Studies
Sex Characteristics
Multidisciplinary
Labor Markets
Middle Aged
Professions
Social system
Labor Economics
People and Places
Social Systems
Medicine
Population Groupings
Female
Job satisfaction
Demographic economics
Gender gap
Psychology
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1891c86eb85a3f356a7ea5143fee38b2