Titlebook: Job Quality and Employer Behaviour; Stephen Bazen,Claudio Lucifora,Wiemer Salverda Book 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan P

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Introduction shift of employment from manufacturing to services and the rapidly rising qualifications of the workforce, growing earnings inequality, greater job flexibility, labour market deregulation and the decentralization of collective bargaining, coupled with lower unionization and greater competitive pres

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What Makes a Good Job? Evidence from OECD Countries the observed disparity between North American and European hours of work, has introduced an additional emphasis on the length of the working week; a related strand has looked at involuntary part-time work. This chapter extends this limited taxonomy using 1997 International Social Survey Programme (

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Job Quality in European Labour Marketsht million.1 According to recent analyses (European Commission, 2001a, 2002, 2003a) the majority of the new jobs were highly skilled ones in high-tech and/or knowledge-intensive sectors, offering decent pay, job security, training and career development. At the same time, however, in some sectors em

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Job Satisfaction and Employer Behavioure UK (OECD, 1994). This has permitted employers to institute greater labour flexibility and allowed them more discretion in employment relations, which are often regarded as a strategic necessity for maintaining organizational efficiency and price competitiveness in the face of intensifying market c

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Employers in the Low-Wage Labour Market: Is Their Role Important?ccounted for far less than one half of analyses, and especially the empirical work on labour markets. This is partly because the most popular and straightforward versions of economic theory suggest that, with full labour mobility and competitive markets, employers do not really matter very much in t

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Using Qualitative Data to Understand Employer Behaviour in Low-Wage Labour Marketsshaping job quality – whether in crafting jobs, allocating workers to jobs, influencing the degree of job security, shaping patterns of horizontal and vertical job mobility or setting wages (Autor .., 2003; Jones .., 2003; Manning, 2003a; OECD, 1997). Taken to its limit, this represents a shift away

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Gender Wages and Careers in the Retail Trade and IT Services: The Case of Finlandraditionally a female-dominated sector at the lower end of the pay scale. On average they have lower education levels and their career opportunities are rather limited. The IT sector, in contrast, is male-dominated, rapidly expanding, well-paid and offers good career prospects, especially for young,