1. OECD’S JOB QUALITY FRAMEWORK
How good is your job?
Measuring and Assessing Job Quality

2. measurement of job quality
Principles for the
measurement of job quality
Focus on outcomes experienced by workers
Consistent with well-being perspective
Allows evaluating the role of policies and institutions
Concentrate on individual workers
To take account of the distribution of job quality outcomes
Allows assessing to what extent poor outcomes on one dimensions are associated with poor outcomes on another
Favours objective (including self-reported) features of job quality
Ensures better comparability of outcomes across countries and time

3. Defining the main dimensions Labour market performance
of job quality
Well-being
Labour market performance
Job quantity
Job quality
Employment /
unemployment
Earnings
quality
Labour market
security
Quality of the
work environment

4. OECD Job Quality Framework
Earnings Quality
Average Earnings
Earnings Inequality
Labour Market Security
Unemployment Risk
Unemployment Insurance
Quality of the Working Environment (Job Strain)
High Job Demands
Low Job Resources

5. Measuring the Quality of Working Environment – Job Strain (1)
Depends on balance between job demands which impair health and job resources which mitigate their effects
Job demands
- time pressure
- physical health risks
- (workplace intimidation)
Job resources
- work autonomy & learning
- good relationships with colleagues
- (good management practices)
Index of job strain
combination of excessive job demands & insufficient resources
that increases risk of health impairment

6. Job strain, as the result of… … and too few job resources
Measuring the Quality of Working Environment – Job Strain (2)
Job Demands-Resources model
Job strain, as the result of…
… too many job demands
… and too few job resources
Time pressure
Work usually more than 50 hours per week
Difficult to take an hour or two off during working hours for personal or family matters
Work at very high speed and too tight deadline
Work autonomy and learning opportunities
Can choose or change the order of tasks
Can choose or change methods of work
Job involves learning new things
Employer provided training or on-the- job training
Physical health risk factors
Tiring and painful positions
Carrying or moving heavy loads
Exposed to vibrations from hand tools, machinery
Exposure to high noise
Exposure to high or low temperature
Good workplace relationships
Feel “at home” at work and have very good friends at work

7. Job Quality and Job Quantity in OECD countries
Normalised score between 0 and 1

8. Job quality outcomes by socio-demographic groups
Cross-country averages, 2010
Gender Age Education
Gender Age Education
Gender Age Education
Source: OECD Employment Outlook 2014
Chapter 3: How Good is Your Job: Measuring and Assessing Job Quality