New report: Vandekerckhove, S. (2021). Norm-based job quality indicators: an application to European survey data, Deliverable 13.4, Leuven, InGRID-2 project 730998 – H2020

This report constitutes Deliverable 13.4, for Work Package 13 of the InGRID-2 project.

Attempts to measure job quality have given raise to a wide range of job quality indicators. Still the literature falls short in defining what constitutes ‘good jobs’ and what are ‘bad jobs’, instead pointing at probable associations of outcomes with job characteristics, or setting out a paternalistic or arbitrary measure of job quality with no tangible interpretation. To overcome the shortcomings of such approaches, and in line with the general definition of job quality, which is the presence of job characteristics leading to favourable job outcomes, we propose a new kind of indicators that are ‘norm-based’. The norm-based approach is a two-step procedure: in the first step the required levels of job characteristics to yield desired outcomes are determined, and in the second step, ‘good jobs’ and ‘bad jobs’ are defined based on the set of characteristics delivering those desired outcomes. Using the 2015 EWCS survey data, the paper illustrates this by working out an example of a norm-based indicator for job quality, applying QCA to large sample data and using well-being as the desired job outcome. The method is generalizable to other outcomes or latent concepts similar to job quality.

Available on https://www.inclusivegrowth.eu...