DISABLED AT WORK. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WORK CHARACTERISTICS AND ASSESSMENT OF JOB SATISFACTION OF PEOPLE WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES

Abstract

In the social dimension, the activity of people with disabilities in the labour market is one of the important indicators of the effectiveness of inclusion policies. In the individual dimension, it defines the opportunities for shaping one's own subjectivity against the dysfunctions that cause disability. However, interest in the issue of work of people with disabilities should not be limited to employment statistics but should also include issues of job satisfaction. This paper attempts to assess job satisfaction of people with disabilities, for whom the reference category was non-disabled people. The analysis of job satisfaction was done in several steps. Firstly, based on descriptive statistics and simple statistical tests, differences in the evaluation of the overall level of job satisfaction people with disabilities and non-disabled people were indicated, as well as differences in job characteristics (its evaluation and conditions). In step two, the relationship between job characteristics and disability was estimated. Based on a logistic regression model, an attempt was made to indicate whether specific job characteristics significantly influence the likelihood of self-identification as a person with disability. Thirdly, it was estimated which of the identified job characteristics were significantly associated with overall job satisfaction. These relationships were tested using an ordinal logistic regression model. The model also tested whether disability itself was a significant predictor of job satisfaction. The analysis was based on European Social Survey 2023 data.