Well-being and disability – new evidence of inequality

Jones, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0535-8090 and Wass, Victoria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0718-7651 2012. Well-being and disability – new evidence of inequality. Presented at: 'Fairness at Work in Challenging Times' - FairWRC Conference, Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK, 6-7 September 2012.

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Evidence on disability-related inequality has largely focused on employment and earnings and concludes that disabled people in the UK face some of the greatest employment disadvantages of any group (NEP 2010:117). From April 2012 a new subjective well-being (SWB) measure takes its place alongside the more traditional income-based ones as a measure of the nation’s progress. Two things are noteworthy about the first publication of some broad SWB statistics: most people report high levels of SWB most of the time and there are typically minimal inter-group differences. This study is the first to consider inter-group differences in the new SWB indicators by disability We argue that, for this group, SWB is an important additional indicator of inequality and as a prompt to ask what is it about disability that generates a large SWB gap? Is it disability or the social gradient associated with disability (see Marmot 2010)? How much of the SWB deficit is explained by above average non-employment? For those in work, how much is explained by low pay, poor quality jobs and over-education?

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 December 2016
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2022 09:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/95912

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