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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okr-10986-378112022-08-03T05:10:55Z Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries Hovhannisyan, Shoghik Montalva-Talledo, Veronica Remick, Tyler Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos Stamm, Kersten GLOBAL ESTIMATE OF JOB QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION WAGE EMPLOYMENT WORKING CONDITIONS JOB QUALITY GENDER GAP INFORMALITY PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS PRODUCTIVITY 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. 2022-08-02T16:32:04Z 2022-08-02T16:32:04Z 2022-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099815508012237346/IDU09ac855b6033b20401e0b7d20c77cc771201c http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37811 English en Policy Research Working Papers;10134 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research |
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GLOBAL ESTIMATE OF JOB QUALITY HIGHER EDUCATION WAGE EMPLOYMENT WORKING CONDITIONS JOB QUALITY GENDER GAP INFORMALITY PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS PRODUCTIVITY Hovhannisyan, Shoghik Montalva-Talledo, Veronica Remick, Tyler Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos Stamm, Kersten Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries |
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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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Hovhannisyan, Shoghik Montalva-Talledo, Veronica Remick, Tyler Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos Stamm, Kersten |
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Hovhannisyan, Shoghik Montalva-Talledo, Veronica Remick, Tyler Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos Stamm, Kersten |
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Hovhannisyan, Shoghik |
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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries |
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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries |
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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries |
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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries |
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Global Job Quality : Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries |
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global job quality : evidence from wage employment across developing countries |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2022 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099815508012237346/IDU09ac855b6033b20401e0b7d20c77cc771201c http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37811 |
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