Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265786 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15565
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
job quality
working conditions
wage employment
private sector
global
JEL: 
J30
J81
I31
O10
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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