International Labour Office (ILO)

Statistical Development and Analysis Unit

Policy Integration Department

Decent Work and Quality in Work

Statistical Indicators: Prospects
for conversion?

Igor Chernyshev

Geneva,
Geneva, May
May 2005
2005
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 Quality in Work

1. Opportunities for work 1. Ensuring career and

employment security.
2. Equity in work
2. Maintaining and promoting
3. Security at work
health and well-being of
4. Productive work workers.
5. Dignity at work 3. Developing skills and
6. Freedom of choice of competences
employment 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 9. Social dialogue and worker involevement
relations.
10.+ Social and economic context 10. Overal work performance
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 Statistical Indicators

Employment opportunities Intricit job quality

Labour force participation rate
Employment population ratio
Unemployment rate
Youth unemployment rate
Share of wage employment in
non- agricultural employment
 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 Of relevance to the

EU?
Percentage of children not
at school

Percentage of children in
wage or self-employment

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 Statistical Indicators cont’d

Adequate earnings and Skills, lifelong training

productive work
Pecentage of employment
with low pay rate
Average earnings in
selected occupations
Employees with recent job
training
and career devlpmnt
 Percentage of working
age population
participating in education
and training

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 Statistical Indicators cont’d

Decent hours Of relevance to the

EU?
Percentage of employees with
excessive hours of work
 Time-related
underemployment

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 Statistical Indicators cont’d

Stability and security of Flexibility and security

work
Percentage of employed  Percentage of employees
persons with job tenure of working part-time and
less than one year those with fixed-term
Percentage of employees contracts
with temporary work
Perception of future job
security

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 Statistical Indicators cont’d

Balancing work and Work organisation 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-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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 Statistical Indicators cont’d

Fair treatment in Gender equality

employment
Occupational segregation  Ratio of women’s hourly
on the basis of gender earnings index to men’s
Ratio of the female share of for paid employees at
employment in managerial work 15+ hours
and administrative
occupations to the female
share of non-agricultural
employment

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 Statistical Indicators cont’d

Safe work Health and safety at

work
Fatal injury rate per 100,000
employees
 Evolution of the incident
Labour inspection rate (number of accidents
(inspectors per 100,000 at work per 100,000
employes) persons in employment)
Occupational injury
insurance coverage

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 Statistical Indicators cont’d

Social protection Of relevance to the EU?

Public social security expenditure

Public expenditure on needs-
based cash income support
Share of population over 65
benefiting from pension
Share of the EAP contributing to
pension fund
Average monthly pension
expressed as a percentage of
median/minimum earnings

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 Statistical Indicators cont’d

Social dialogue and Social dialogue and

workplace relations work involvement
Union density rate No agreed indicator so far

Collective wage bargaining

coverage rate

Strikes and lockouts per 1,000

employees

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 Statistical Indicators cont’d

Social and economic Overal work performance

context
Inflation Growth in labour productivity,
Income inequality measured as change in the
Poverty levels of GDP per capita of the
employed population per hour
Education of adult population worked (in percent)
Income per employed person
(PPP)
Growth of output per employed
person
 Informal economy employment

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 Decent work measuring tools
1. Labour Forces Survey (LFS) based Modular
Decent 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 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 globally
Enhancing quality in work performance

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