Job quality and labour market performance



Job quality and labour market performance | 13

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Indicators on atypical working hours do not show specific inequalities between men and women
concerning work at weekends. Nevertheless, men are more affected by night work than are
women. In the EU27, almost 10% of men declare that they usually work at night whereas only
5.4% of women do so.

Finally, data on training participation indicate that European women have better access to
training than men. In spite of very large differences in national total participation rates across
Europe (from 1.3% in Romania and Bulgaria to 32.4% in Sweden), on average 10.6% of
European women received training in 2007 compared to only 8.8% of men.

These comparisons show that men and women are not affected in the same way by job quality
problems. Comparisons on wages and work contracts indicate that European women are
disadvantaged in terms of socio-economic security compared to men. Figures about part-time
work confirm that lower levels of socio-economic security are probably linked to problems of
conciliation between working and family life that particularly affect women. However,
according to the indicators on ‘atypical hours of work’, women do not seem to be disadvantaged
and they also get better access to training on average.

4.3 Do high initial education levels ensure against low quality jobs?

The indicators of job quality used so far are not always broken down by levels of initial
education. Wages and participation in training are given directly by Eurostat and in addition we
are able to calculate the proportion of temporary contracts and part-time contracts.

Table 6. Job quality indicators by education level (in % in 2006-2007, except wages in euro,
2002)

Education
levels

Proportion of
temporary
contracts

Part time
rate

Annual
wage

Monthly
wage

Participation in
training and
education

EU 15

ISCED 0_2

21,20

25,47

23644,73

1830,87

4,4______________

EU 15

ISCED 3_4

12,40

25,23

31316,05

2383,30

11,3

EU 15

ISCED 5_6

12,45

19,77

32837,44

2550,94

20,1

EU 15

No answer

13,00

22,02

45722,46

3514,72

.

EU 15

Total

14,72

23,79

32011,62

2450,68

.

EU 25

ISCED 0_2

21,42

25,17

21406,15

1670,11

.

EU 25

ISCED 3_4

13,44

21,61

26519,00

2019,25

.

EU 25

ISCED 5_6

12,33

17,97

26423,96

2071,44

.

EU 25

No answer

12,93

21,85

39735,52

3066,30

.

EU 25

Total

15,02

21,48

27836,09

2139,88

.

NMS 10

ISCED 0_2

24,64

15,30

5107,55

412,44

.

NMS 10

ISCED 3_4

16,98

6,37

6016,69

452,45

.

NMS 10

ISCED 5_6

10,92

4,73

4848,25

391,21

.

NMS 10

No answer

.

.

10152,09

778,58

.

NMS 10

Total

16,24

6,86

6718,58

516,97

.

Education levels (ISCED 1997): ISCED0_2 Pre-primary, primary and lower secondary education/
ISCED3_4 Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education / ISCED5_6 Tertiary education

Source: LFS (2006 for NMS, 2007 for EU15), European Structure of Earnings Survey (2002).




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