Job quality and employer behaviour

"This book takes a look at the issue of job quality, analyzing employer behavior and the agenda for policy intervention. Between 1997 and 2002, more than twelve million new jobs were created in the European Union and labour market participation increased by more than eight million. While a good deal of these new jobs have been created in high-tech and/or knowledge-intensive sectors providing workers with decent pay, job security, training and career development prospects, a significant share of jobs, particularly in labor-intensive service sector industries fail to do so." (author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) Content: Stephen Bazen, Claudia Lucifora, Wiemer Salverda: Introduction (1-8); Part I - Job quality and job satisfaction Andrew Clark: What makes a good job? - evidence from OECD Countries (11-30); Frank Siebern-Thomas: Job quality in european labour markets (31-66); Alex Bryson, Lorenzo Cappellari and Claudia Lucifora: Job satisfaction and employer behaviour (67-83); Part II - The role of employers Harry L Holzer: Employers in the low-wage labour market - is their role important? (87-110); Damian Grimshaw: Using qualitative data to understand employer behaviour in low-wage labour markets (111-131); Iben Bolvig: Within- and between-firm mobility in the low-wage labour market (132-156); Part III - Job quality in the service sector Stephen Bazen: Job stability and earnings mobility in the low-skill service sector in France (159-176); Florence Jany-Catrice, Nicole Gadrey, Martine Pernod: Employment systems in labour-intensive activities - the case of retailing in France (177-194), Rita Asplund, Reija Lilja: Gender wages and careers in the retail trade and IT-Services - the case of Finland (195-215); Thomas Zwick, Anja Kuckulenz: Heterogeneous returns to training in personal services (216-234); Part IV - Policy Issues Paul Ostermann: Making bad jobs good - strategies for the service sector Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. (237-252).