Decent Work as a Necessary Condition for Sustainable Well-Being. A Tale of Pi(i)gs and Farmers

Antonio Ariza-Montes, Gabriele Giorgi, Felipe Hernández-Perlines and Javier Fiz-Perez
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Antonio Ariza-Montes: Department of Management, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 14004 Córdoba, Spain
Gabriele Giorgi: Department of Human Sciences, Università Europea di Roma, 00169 Rome, Italy
Felipe Hernández-Perlines: Department of Business Administration, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 45071 Toledo, Spain
Javier Fiz-Perez: Department of Human Sciences, Università Europea di Roma, 00169 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: This article analyzes with a holistic and systematic approach the state of working conditions in the European labor market after the crisis, as well as their effects on worker well-being. For this, a distinction will be made between the southern countries most affected, namely Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain (Piigs), and the northern countries that are, a priori, less damaged by the crisis (Farmers). The samples integrate 7867 workers from the five Piigs countries (36.2%) and 13,894 from the 10 Farmers countries (63.8%). The results have broadly confirmed the research purposes and they established that ensuring well-being is the key to sustainability, growth, and success for workers, groups, and organizations.

Keywords: sustainability; job quality; well-being; work intensity; social environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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