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Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work: Towards New Forms of Measurement

In: Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case of Italy

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  • Tindara Addabbo

    (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

  • Giovanni Solinas

    (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Abstract

This chapter deals with the issue of measuring quality of work according to the subjective perception that each single worker has of it. The essay starts out from the definition put forward by Gallino (1993), who identifies four dimensions of the quality of labour (ergonomic, of complexity, of autonomy and of control), analysing it and integrating it with two other two dimensions: the relational/social dimension of work bound up in the need for social recognition and the dimension of compatibility between working/ living time/conditions. A measuring method is put forward, articulated across the six dimensions, grouping together about 50 elementary indicators into synthetic indexes of various levels, exploiting a fuzzy expert system based on a previous model proposed in Addabbo, Facchinetti, Mastroleo and Solinas (2007). The method is applied to the micro-data gathered in the province of Modena, from 719 workers in a company sample ranging from the light-engineering sector to building, services, food, IT and clothing. The results do not indicate the existence of compensating wage differentials, but rather seem to indicate the presence of a job market segmentation between standard and non-standard employment and between different types of qualification.

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  • Tindara Addabbo & Giovanni Solinas, 2012. "Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work: Towards New Forms of Measurement," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Tindara Addabbo & Giovanni Solinas (ed.), Non-Standard Employment and Quality of Work. The Case of Italy, edition 1, chapter 12, pages 233-260, AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro.
    • Handle: RePEc:ail:chapts:06-12
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    1. G. S. F. Bruno & F. E. Caroleo & O. Dessy, 2014. "Temporary Contracts and Young Workers’ Job Satisfaction in Italy," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Miguel Ángel Malo & Dario Sciulli (ed.), Disadvantaged Workers, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 95-120, Springer.
    2. Giulia Casu & Marco Giovanni Mariani & Rita Chiesa & Dina Guglielmi & Paola Gremigni, 2021. "The Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Gender between Job Satisfaction and Task Performance," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(18), pages 1-15, September.
    3. Tindara Addabbo & Marco Centra & Maurizio Curtarelli & Marco Fuscaldo & Valentina Gualtieri, 2013. "The quality of work dimensions. Results of a multivariate analysis from the Third Isfol Survey on Quality of work in Italy," Department of Economics (DEMB) 0017, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Department of Economics "Marco Biagi".
    4. Bruno, Giovanni S. F. & Caroleo, Floro Ernesto & Dessy, Orietta, 2015. "Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy," IZA Discussion Papers 9050, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    5. Francesco Bartolucci & Aleksandra Baschina & Giovanni S. F. Bruno & Olga Demidova & Marcello Signorelli, 2015. "Determinants of Job Satisfaction in Young Russian Workers," Discussion Papers 7_2015, CRISEI, University of Naples "Parthenope", Italy.

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    Keywords

    non-standard employment; quality of work; fuzzy logic.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
    • J81 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - Working Conditions

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