This book takes a fresh look at the issue of job quality, analysing employer behaviour and discussing the agenda for policy intervention. The contributions in the volume provide new perspectives on a highly debated and policy relevant issue. Between 1997 and 2002, more than twelve million new...

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the endogeneity of union membership and union recognition. We show that a negative association...

This paper presents the first panel data evidence on the productivity effects of training in Germany. It uses a large and representative establishment panel data set for all profit-oriented sectors of the economy. Increasing the share of employees participating in training in the first half of a...