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Decent Work and Quality in Work

Statistical Indicators: Prospectsfor conversion?

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

Igor ChernyshevIgor ChernyshevIgor ChernyshevIgor Chernyshev

Statistical Development and Analysis UnitStatistical Development and Analysis Unit

Policy 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 andmember 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 work2. 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 andemployment 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 workplacerelations.

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 ratio

Unemployment rate

Youth unemployment rate

Share of wage employment innon- agricultural employment

Intricit job quality

Transition between non-employment and withinemplyment

Inclusion and access to thelabour market

Transition between E, U andinactivity

Diversity and non-discrimonation

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



Statistical Indicators cont’d

Unacceptable work

Percentage of children not

at school

Percentage of children inwage or self-employment

Of relevance to the

EU?




Adequate earnings and

productive work

Pecentage of employmentwith low pay rate

Average earnings in

selected occupations

Employees with recent jobtraining

Skills, lifelong training

and career devlpmnt

Percentage of working

age population

participating in education

and training




Decent hours

Percentage of employees with

excessive hours of work

Time-related

underemployment

Of relevance to the

EU?




Stability and security of

work

Percentage of employedpersons with job tenure of

less than one year

Percentage of employees

with temporary workPerception of future job

security

Flexibility and security

Percentage of employeesworking part-time and

those with fixed-term

contracts




Balancing work and

family life

Ratio of the employmentrate for women with

children under compulsory

school age to the

employmnet rate of allwomen aged 20-49

Work organisation and

work-life balance

Absolute difference inemployment rates without

presence of any children

with the presence of a

child aged 0-6, by sex




Fair treatment in

employment

Occupational segregationon the basis of gender

Ratio of the female share of

employment in managerial

and administrativeoccupations 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 100,000persons in employment)



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Social protection

Public social security expenditurePublic expenditure on needs-

based cash income support

Share of population over 65benefiting from pension

Share of the EAP contributing topension fund

Average monthly pensionexpressed as a percentage of median/minimum earnings

Of relevance to the EU?



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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

InflationIncome 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 ModularDecent Work Survey

2. Regular LFS

+

Regular statistical reports

Adminstrative 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 EUROSTATquality in work dimensions with the core ILO decent work andEUROSTAT quality in work indicators – 50 countries in total.

The data will be regularly updated and analysed in a summarypublications, 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 ILOPanorama Laboral (Latin America), as well as South-East Asiaand the Arab State data bases.



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Reducing decent work deficits globally

Enhancing quality in work performance

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