Job quality and labour market performance

Contents

1.  Introduction: How to define job quality ................................................................................. 1

2.  Mapping job quality in the EU27 ........................................................................................... 2

3.  Job quality and job quantity: Is there a trade-off? .................................................................. 7

4.  The heterogeneity of job quality by social groups.................................................................. 9

4.1 Lower quality jobs for young workers in Europe ........................................................ 10

4.2 Is job quality gender-biased in the European Union? .................................................. 11

4.3 Do high initial education levels ensure against low quality jobs? ............................... 13

4.4 Contractual variety and job quality.............................................................................. 14

4.5 Heterogeneity of job quality by sectors: some early results......................................... 15

5. Conclusion............................................................................................................................ 17

Appendix 1- Variables included in the Principal Components Analysis .................................... 18

Appendix 2- The variables included in the synthetic index of job quality.................................. 20

References................................................................................................................................... 21

List of Figures

Figure 1. A map of job quality in the EU27 (2005-2006)............................................................. 3

Figure 2. Some Laeken key indicators.......................................................................................... 5

Figure 3. Some Laeken context indicators.................................................................................... 5

Figure 4. Job quality and some public policy indicators, by cluster ............................................. 7

Figure 5. Job quality index and employment rates, EU countries, 1983-2004 ............................. 8

Figure 6. Job quality index and long-term unemployment rates, EU countries, 1983-2004......... 9

Figure 7. Job quality index and NAIRU, EU countries, 1995-2004 ............................................. 9

Figure 8. Participation in training and education by age class.................................................... 11

Figure 9. Access to further training by education level (% of the adult population (25-64 years))
...................................................................................................................................... 14

List of Tables

Table 1. Job quality and some public policy indicators, by cluster............................................... 6

Table 2. Correlations between quality indicators and the employment rate for EU countries,
1983-2004....................................................................................................................... 8

Table 3. Job quality indicators by age (in %, in 2006-2007) ...................................................... 10

Table 4. Access to further training by age (% of the adult population) ...................................... 11

Table 5. Job quality indicators by gender (in % in 2006-2007, except wages in euro, 2002)..... 12

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

2002)............................................................................................................................. 13

Table 7. Job quality indicators by type of work contract (in euro, 2002) ................................... 15

Table 8. Job quality indicators by economic activity (in % in 2006-2007, except wages in €,
2002)............................................................................................................................. 15

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