Skill-upgrading and service expansion are two trends that have characterised labour
markets for a long time. What this entails for job quality over the long term is not well …

This paper studies whether the occupational structure in Nordic labour markets is changing
in the direction of upgrading or polarization. Upgrading refers to an increase of the …

Objective: This study aimed to explore the development of working conditions within and
between occupations in the Swedish labor market from 1997 to 2015 and whether any …

European policy recognises competitiveness and sustainability as essential goals for the
EU, to be achieved through building an economically dynamic and socially cohesive Union …

The distribution of job quality across workers and the change in job quality over time can be
measured by job-domain indices or single-index job-satisfaction. This paper takes both …

The Nordic countries have been renowned for labour markets with high-quality jobs. The key
question for the article is whether this also holds in the current financial and Eurozone crisis …

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The issue of the quality of work-life has risen in popularity due to concerns about the
economic and social sustainability of European societies. Throughout the continent, global …

This report examines the upward and downward trends in job quality across the EU from
1995 to 2010. The improvement and harmonisation of working conditions are core …

Job quality is a multidimensional concept, but the empirical analysis of job quality in Europe
leads to three main types of result. First, it reveals important differences across countries …