Job Quality in Europe in the first decade of the 21st Century

José Ignacio Antón, Enrique Fernandez-Macias and Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo

No 2015-09, Economics working papers from Department of Economics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Abstract: Using a recently developed aggregate indicator of job quality and three waves of the European Survey of Working Conditions (2000, 2005 and 2010) this paper explores the evolution job quality in the EU15 during the first decade of the 21st century, including the initial impact of the Great Recession. After a careful study of the evolution of job quality across the different dimensions and components of the proposed job quality index, differentiating between changes in the composition and changes in the means, we do not detect any major decline in job quality during the period, even during the early years of the economic crisis. The most significant change is a small increase in job quality in peripheral European countries, suggesting some convergence which may be undone in later years. We compare our findings with the conclusions of other authors and discuss several hypotheses for explaining the remarkable stability of job quality during such turbulent times.

Keywords: job quality; working conditions; measurement; economic crisis; transformation of work; Europe. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J00 J81 J82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2015-11
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Working Paper: Job quality in Europe in the first decade of the 21st Century (2014)
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