Is Job Quality Becoming More Unequal?

Abstract

This paper examines trends in non-wage aspects of job quality in Europe, with a focus on their dispersion as well as their level. Theories differ in their predictions for these trends, and on whether they expect national convergence. Data from the 5 th European Working Conditions Survey are used, in conjunction with earlier waves, to construct four indices of non-wage job quality, Work Quality, Work Intensity, Good Physical Environment and Working Time Quality. We track them from 1995 to 2010, across and within 15 European Union countries. The social corporatist countries had the highest Work Quality, and lowest dispersion for all four indices. While continuity is found, Work Quality and Work Intensity each rose in several countries, and Working Time Quality rose in most. The dispersion of Working Time Quality, Work Intensity and Good Physical Environment each fell in many countries; and there was little sign of national divergence.

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