Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries
Measuring job quality across countries has been challenging and has relied typically on a single indicator, such as formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality departin...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099815508012237346/IDU09ac855b6033b20401e0b7d20c77cc771201c http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37811 |
| Summary: | Measuring job quality across
countries has been challenging and has relied typically on a
single indicator, such as formality or wages. To contribute
to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first
global estimate of job quality departing from microdata. It
assembles a harmonized global data set of labor force and
household surveys to produce a measure of job quality across
four dimensions: sufficient income, access to employment
benefits, job stability, and adequate working conditions.
The results for 40 developing countries show significant
variation in job quality across countries, economic sectors,
and sociodemographic characteristics, including age,
location, and educational attainment. Countries in the Latin
America and the Caribbean region have relatively higher
levels of job quality, while countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
display the lowest levels of job quality. Most workers in
the sectors of finance and business services, public
administration, and utilities have, on average, better jobs.
Higher education matters in securing greater job quality,
while the average job quality of wage employment is
relatively similar between men and women but with some
variation in income and working conditions. |
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