Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162057 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IN3 Working Paper Series No. WP14-003
Publisher: 
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Barcelona
Abstract: 
Through a representative sample of 9,100 and 8,755 employees in 2008 and 2010, and a using structural equation model, this working paper empirically analyses the multi-dimensional determinants (direct effects) of job quality in Spain. The research concludes that: #1 despite the economic crisis, job quality improved over the analysis period; #2 intrinsic job quality, work organisation, and inclusion and access to the labor market are the key explanatory dimensions of job quality; and #3 the main effect of the economic crisis on job quality was a significant restructuring of its explanatory dimensions in favour of those more directly linked to the working environment, and specifically to social relations, health and safety at work, working conditions, and gender equality and work-life balance. These results suggest the importance of the working environment and social relationships, beyond the quality of the workplace, as important tools of employment public policy to improve labor markets and to overcoming the economic crisis.
Subjects: 
Job quality
Economic crisis
Work organisation
Workplace relationships
JEL: 
J24
J28
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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