Determinant factors of job quality in Europe

Nuno Crespo (), Nadia Simoes () and José Castro Pinto

No 13-01, Working Papers Series 2 from ISCTE-IUL, Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL)

Abstract: We analyze the determinants of job quality in Europe based on an individual level approach. Using data from the Fourth European Working Conditions Survey, covering 31 countries, we propose a multidimensional indicator of job quality based on eight objective and three subjective dimensions and evaluate the influence of worker and firm characteristics on the overall job quality level as well as on each of its constituent dimensions. Our results confirm the influence of worker and firm characteristics on the quality of jobs. Among worker characteristics, the factors that most strongly influence job quality are education and whether the worker is self-employed or a wage earner. The economic sector is the most important firm-related characteristic.

Keywords: Job quality; Europe; determinant factors; twice-censored Tobit model dimensional analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J21 J81 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-01-11
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