Structural transformation and implications for future job quality

Abstract

This Chapter investigates the long‐term trends in the reallocation of employment across sectors, and assesses their implications for overall working conditions and employment arrangements. Results show that differences in working conditions are sizeable across sectors, so that employment shifts across sectors have the potential to change the quality of employment. However, improvements along this dimension hinge on the assumption that transitioning workers are able to find jobs with better working conditions, which is by no means guaranteed.

Developmental Assets and Career Development in the Educational System: Integrating Awareness of Self-Identity, Knowledge of the World of Work and the SDGs in School Programs

“…It could also require talking to experts in a specific field and checking for available information on websites. In this regard, specific support and guidelines come from the longstanding tradition of job analysis, which helps in systematically acquiring information on occupations despite changes over time in work and working contexts [31,32].…”

Changing Work in Changing Contexts: New Perspectives for Job Analysis in Career Counseling

“…Although for a long time it has been used for a person-job match that fi ts with the needs and characteristics of both, the meanings of JA in current times has recently been questioned. Some jobs, in fact, tend to disappear and others, albeit new, will very likely change over a short period of time; likewise, work contexts are rapidly and unpredictably fl uctuating (Mourelo, Kühn, Milasi, Yoon, & Viegelahn, 2018). The underlying issue is, therefore, whether it is worth redefi ning this tool and using it more effectively, thus contributing to a sustainable economic and human development.…”