Measuring the Quality of Employment

Kirsten Sehnbruch

Chapter 8 in The Chilean Labor Market, 2006, pp 211-238 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1999 Mahbub ul Haq, the originator of the Human Development Index (HDI), wrote: “We need a measure of the same level of vulgarity as GNP—only a number—but a measure which is not as blind to the social aspects of human life as is GNP.”1

Keywords: Labor Market; Unemployment Rate; Minimum Wage; Human Development Index; Capability Approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403983640_8

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