TY - JOUR
T1 - The skill-divide in job quality
T2 - A cross-national analysis of 28 countries
AU - Stier, Haya
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by Israel Science Foundation , Grant No. 323/10 . I would like to thank Efrat Herzberg and Dina Maskileyson for their valuable research assistance and helpful comments.
PY - 2015/1
Y1 - 2015/1
N2 - This study focuses on the skill divide in job quality and the role of social institutions in structuring the relation of workers' qualifications to the attributes of their jobs. Four measures of job quality are examined: job security, job achievement, job content and work schedule flexibility. The study is based on the 2005 ISSP module on work orientations and encompasses 28 countries. Obtained through multilevel modeling, the findings show that low-skilled workers are disadvantaged in all aspects of job quality. However, skill inequality in the quality of employment depends on countries' characteristics, with declining inequality in countries at higher levels of technological development and to some extent also in times of technological growth. At times of high unemployment, skill disparities in job security widen while on other measures of job quality they decline. Under high market regulation, the low skilled enjoy better job security but on other measures, skill inequalities increase.
AB - This study focuses on the skill divide in job quality and the role of social institutions in structuring the relation of workers' qualifications to the attributes of their jobs. Four measures of job quality are examined: job security, job achievement, job content and work schedule flexibility. The study is based on the 2005 ISSP module on work orientations and encompasses 28 countries. Obtained through multilevel modeling, the findings show that low-skilled workers are disadvantaged in all aspects of job quality. However, skill inequality in the quality of employment depends on countries' characteristics, with declining inequality in countries at higher levels of technological development and to some extent also in times of technological growth. At times of high unemployment, skill disparities in job security widen while on other measures of job quality they decline. Under high market regulation, the low skilled enjoy better job security but on other measures, skill inequalities increase.
KW - Cross-national analysis
KW - Job attributes
KW - Job quality
KW - Skill divide
KW - Technological developments
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.07.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.07.008
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AN - SCOPUS:84906280395
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 49
SP - 70
EP - 80
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
ER -