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Social Indicators Research
Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research 1/2013

01.08.2013

Quality of Work and Aggregate Productivity

verfasst von: Vicente Royuela, Jordi Suriñach

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 1/2013

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Abstract

We inspect the relationship between quality of work and productivity. Using Spanish aggregate data for the period 2001–2006, we find that quality of work is an additional factor to explain productivity levels in sectors and regions. Consequently, quality of work is not only an objective per se, but it also may be a production factor able to increase the wealth of regions. In our work we use two alternatives definitions of quality of work, coming respectively from survey data and from a social indicators approach. Besides, we employ two different measurements of labour productivity, in order to test the robustness of our result. We estimate our model using a simultaneous equation model for our panel of data, and we find important differences in high and low human capital sectors. The former display a positive relationship between quality of work and productivity, while the latter show a negative relationship.
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1
The words were used as the title for an interview with the sociologist Richard Sennett, published by the Spanish newspaper, La Vanguardia, on 20 December 2006.
 
2
We assume that having a fixed-term contract should not be identified as a bad-job per se. As Origo and Pagani (2009) argue, what matters for job satisfaction is not just the type of job but mainly the perceived job security, which may be independent of the type of contract.
 
3
For complementary definitions of quality of work, see Sanchis (2003).
 
4
See also Freeman (1978).
 
5
Seven sectors, for seven regions and 5 years result in 245 observations in our database.
 
6
EU-15 comprises the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
 
7
Several issues arise when trying to measure labour productivity, especially total factor productivity. For a discussion, see the Spring 2008 special issue of the International Productivity Monitor (Diewert 2008; Inklaar et al. 2008b).
 
8
Sectors S01, S04 and S05 are the ones with the lowest proportions of individuals with higher education, and are labelled low-HK sectors. The other sectors are considered high-HK sectors.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Quality of Work and Aggregate Productivity
verfasst von
Vicente Royuela
Jordi Suriñach
Publikationsdatum
01.08.2013
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-012-0081-1

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