Publication: Measuring the Quality of Jobs in Turkey
Date
2017-12
ISSN
Published
2017-12
Author(s)
Abstract
This paper introduces a new Job Quality
Index that measures the quality of jobs in Turkey over the
last decade. While the main focus is on wage employment –
which in 2016 accounts for nearly 73 percent of all workers
– the paper also discusses job quality of the self-employed
and unpaid family workers. Based on a comprehensive
definition of what constitutes a good job, the index
consists of 6 dimensions covering aspects such as adherence
to Labor Law regulations, working conditions, adequate
linkage between wage and job, productive usage and
adaptability of skills, career opportunities and employment
resilience. The quality of wage employment improved at the
aggregate level from 2009 until 2016; with sharper
improvements in job quality between 2009 and 2012.
Improvements are largely the result of compositional changes
toward more formal sector wage jobs; yet the distribution of
job quality remains widespread, across economic sectors,
occupational categories and geographic locations. The paper
delves deep into each dimension of a good job and highlights
the main drivers of good (and bad) jobs in Turkey and
identifies the types of reforms that are needed to enable
workers to benefit from increasing growth while adapting to
changing labor market conditions. Lastly, the findings from
this paper show that by measuring job quality policymakers
can identify what jobs should be incentivized to ensure that
job growth is accompanied by job quality.
Citation
“Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Gruen, Carola; Levin, Victoria. 2017. Measuring the Quality of Jobs in Turkey. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29189 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”