Abstract
Data from six waves of the European Community Household Panel (1996–2001) in 11 countries suggest that low-paid employees are significantly less satisfied with their job than the high-paid in southern Europe, but not in the northern countries. Proxying job satisfaction for job quality, the authors show that while low-paid employment does not necessarily mean low-quality employment, workers in some countries suffer the double penalty of low pay and low job quality. Such dualism across European labour markets, they argue, reflects different country-level approaches to the trade-off between flexibility and security, calling for a policy focus on the latter to enhance job quality.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-29 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | International Labour Review |
Volume | 149 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2010 |
Keywords
- job satisfaction
- wages
- low wages
- Austria
- Belgium
- Denmark
- Finland
- Greece
- Ireland
- Italy
- Portugal
- Spain
- United Kingdom