Job Quality

Abstract

Wages are only one dimension of the quality of workers’ new jobs. Other aspects also matter for the workers’ life and career opportunities. It has been argued that work is intimately related to other social, economic and political issues (Kalleberg 2009: 8). For instance, job insecurity not only increases workers’ levels of stress (De Witte 1999), but may also make them risk averse. Parents with unstable jobs thus may invest less in their children’s education, which affects the children’s long-term opportunities and quality of life (Esping-Andersen 2008: 75).