decent work and quality in work statistical indicators: prospects for conversion? geneva, may 2005...

Decent Work and Quality in Work Statistical Indicators: Prospects

for conversion?

Geneva, May Geneva, May 20052005Geneva, May Geneva, May 20052005

Igor ChernyshevIgor ChernyshevIgor ChernyshevIgor Chernyshev

Statistical Development and Analysis UnitStatistical Development and Analysis UnitPolicy Integration DepartmentPolicy Integration Department

International Labour Office (ILO)International Labour Office (ILO)

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Decent Work: ILO organising framework

“Opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work, in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity”

Juan Somavia, ILO Director General, 87th ILC Report,1999

Quiality in Work: Guiding principle of EU Social Policy Agenda

Central issue in employment and social policies

One of the three overarching objectives in the Employment Guidelines 2003-2005

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Need for specific decent work/quality in work statistical indicators for EU, ILO and

member States Objectively measure extent and pattern of decent work /quality in work

Objectively monitor and evaluate progress on decent work/quality in work

Communicate with constituents/member States and public

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Decent Work and Quality in Work Paradigm

Decent Work

1. Opportunities for work

2. Equity in work

3. Security at work

4. Productive work

5. Dignity at work

6. Freedom of choice of employment

Quality in Work

1. Ensuring career and employment security.

2. Maintaining and promoting health and well-being of workers.

3. Developing skills and competences

4. Reconciling working and non-working life.

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Four global pillars

Decent Work + Quality in Work

= Employment, social protection, social dialogue and rights at work?

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Decent Work Dimensions Quality in Work Dimensions 1. Employment opportunities 1. Intricit job quality 2. Inclusion and

access to the labour market 3. Diversity

and non-discrimination

2. Unacceptable work Implicitly included?

3. Adequate earninigs and productive work

4. Skills, lifelong training and career development

4. Decent hours Implicitly included

5. Stability and security of work 5. Flexibility and security

6. Balancing work and familiy life 6. Work organisation and work-life balance

7. Fair treatment in employment 7. Gender equality

8. Safe work 8. Health and safety at work

9. Social protection Implicitly included?

10. Social dialogue and workplace relations.

9. Social dialogue and worker involevement

10.+ Social and economic context 10. Overal work performance

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Statistical Indicators

Employment opportunities

Labour force participation rateEmployment population ratioUnemployment rateYouth unemployment rateShare of wage employment in

non- agricultural employment

Intricit job quality Transition between non-

employment and within emplyment

Inclusion and access to the labour market

Transition between E, U and inactivity

Diversity and non-discrimonation

E and /or U gaps of 55-64 old, immigrants, disabled people

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Statistical Indicators cont’d

Unacceptable work

Percentage of children not at school

Percentage of children in wage or self-employment

Of relevance to the EU?

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Adequate earnings and productive work

Pecentage of employment with low pay rate

Average earnings in selected occupations

Employees with recent job training

Skills, lifelong training and career devlpmnt

Percentage of working age population participating in education and training

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Decent hours

Percentage of employees with excessive hours of work

Time-related underemployment


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Stability and security of work

Percentage of employed persons with job tenure of less than one year

Percentage of employees with temporary work

Perception of future job security

Flexibility and security

Percentage of employees working part-time and those with fixed-term contracts

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Balancing work and family life

Ratio of the employment rate for women with children under compulsory school age to the employmnet rate of all women aged 20-49

Work organisation and work-life balance

Absolute difference in employment rates without presence of any children with the presence of a child aged 0-6, by sex

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Fair treatment in employment

Occupational segregation on the basis of gender

Ratio of the female share of employment in managerial and administrative occupations to the female share of non-agricultural employment

Gender equality

Ratio of women’s hourly earnings index to men’s for paid employees at work 15+ hours

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Safe work

Fatal injury rate per 100,000 employees

Labour inspection (inspectors per 100,000 employes)

Occupational injury insurance coverage

Health and safety at work

Evolution of the incident rate (number of accidents at work per 100,000 persons in employment)

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Social protection

Public social security expenditurePublic expenditure on needs-

based cash income supportShare of population over 65

benefiting from pensionShare of the EAP contributing to

pension fundAverage monthly pension

expressed as a percentage of median/minimum earnings


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Social dialogue and workplace relations

Union density rate

Collective wage bargaining coverage rate

Strikes and lockouts per 1,000 employees

Social dialogue and work involvement

No agreed indicator so far

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Social and economic context

Inflation

Income inequality

Poverty

Education of adult population

Income per employed person (PPP)

Growth of output per employed person

Informal economy employment

Overal work performance

Growth in labour productivity, measured as change in the levels of GDP per capita of the employed population per hour worked (in percent)

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Decent work measuring tools

1. Labour Forces Survey (LFS) based Modular Decent Work Survey

2. Regular LFS+Regular statistical reportsAdminstrative records

What about Qualty in Work?

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ILO DW – EU QW data base: Utopia or reality?

Create a special regional database organised in a standardised format according to the ILO decent work and EUROSTAT quality in work dimensions with the core ILO decent work and EUROSTAT quality in work indicators – 50 countries in total.

The data will be regularly updated and analysed in a summary publications, allowing easy reading and dissemination.

The database will be linked with relevant databases of EUROSTAT, national statistical offices of non-EU member countries and ILO Geneva.

Furthermore, the above database will be linked to the ILO Panorama Laboral (Latin America), as well as South-East Asia and the Arab State data bases.

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Reducing decent work deficits globallyEnhancing quality in work performance

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